1. The Bank of England has issued a £100,000,000 note, but it is not in general circulation (it’s used to back the value of Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes).
2. I originally omitted the FR Yugoslavia issue of a 500,000,000,000 dinar note in 1993, but it’s been pointed out that Serbia is the legal successor state of FR Yugoslavia, so I’ve added it.
3. There’s a typo for Germany: the highest note (shown on the left) is actually 100 trillion, not 1 trillion.
Now i see why Greeks are in debt, they lost one of those banknotes and never managed to recover from it
Germany is Missing two zero’s
Bro, what happened to Hungary in 1946☠️
I know it does not matter much in the context but my linguist eyes can’t stand the fact that some currencies are in English plurals, some are in local plurals and some are in singular.
Croatia is now 500€. Which would be approx 3750 kunas.
In Portugal 10,000 escudos is equivalent to 50€ nowadays, so the 500€ bill is technically a lot more valuable
100 Billion Drachmas? Damn, that today would still be a lot of money, given inflation was in normal levels.
Just to give an idea, a little before the adoption of €, 5.000 Drachmas was our largest banknote and at the end 10.000 became reality. Having one of those back then you were a “king”. You could buy things. 5000 was like 100€ today or 10.000 like 200€, but you know prices were much cheaper than today.
A Gyros was just 150 Drachmas. Now, it’s 4€ which would mean ~1300 Drachmas.
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Some notes (which I’ve since [addressed in the image](https://i.imgur.com/OJmhcay.jpg)):
1. The Bank of England has issued a £100,000,000 note, but it is not in general circulation (it’s used to back the value of Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes).
2. I originally omitted the FR Yugoslavia issue of a 500,000,000,000 dinar note in 1993, but it’s been pointed out that Serbia is the legal successor state of FR Yugoslavia, so I’ve added it.
3. There’s a typo for Germany: the highest note (shown on the left) is actually 100 trillion, not 1 trillion.
Now i see why Greeks are in debt, they lost one of those banknotes and never managed to recover from it
Germany is Missing two zero’s
Bro, what happened to Hungary in 1946☠️
I know it does not matter much in the context but my linguist eyes can’t stand the fact that some currencies are in English plurals, some are in local plurals and some are in singular.
Croatia is now 500€. Which would be approx 3750 kunas.
In Portugal 10,000 escudos is equivalent to 50€ nowadays, so the 500€ bill is technically a lot more valuable
100 Billion Drachmas? Damn, that today would still be a lot of money, given inflation was in normal levels.
Just to give an idea, a little before the adoption of €, 5.000 Drachmas was our largest banknote and at the end 10.000 became reality. Having one of those back then you were a “king”. You could buy things. 5000 was like 100€ today or 10.000 like 200€, but you know prices were much cheaper than today.
A Gyros was just 150 Drachmas. Now, it’s 4€ which would mean ~1300 Drachmas.