Cash is used less and less throughout the world. With the development of digital technology and the Internet, they have been replaced by debit and credit cards. Any payments can be made online.
Mobile payments can be made even in Africa. Humanity is on the verge of new commodity-money relations, which is eloquently evidenced by the emergence of a variety of digital currencies.
Paper notes and coins are a thing of the past. Interest in them remains with collectors and travelers. Especially if these are banknotes of exotic countries, or are distinguished by special signs. For example, a banknote of one hundred trillion dollars.
Zimbabwean dollars
It was in this country in 2000 that a denomination of this denomination was issued.
In principle, the inhabitants of developed countries know little about this country. The world media mainly covered the crimes of the dictatorial regime, ousted in 2017 by the “president" Robert Mugabe.
In the case when Mugabe did not have time to “please” them with another atrocity, they focused on the financial problems of the country. The scale of these problems can be judged by the nominal value of this iconic note.
Naturally, the denomination in Zimbabwean dollars is nominated. The real value in US dollars did not exceed three hundred at the most favorable rate.
Swiss frank
A banknote of 50 Swiss francs is unique, on the back of which is a self-portrait of the artist Sophie Taber-Arp.
Besides the fact that this is the only female portrait on a Swiss banknote, it is also, in modern terms, the only selfie depicted on banknotes. On banknotes of all countries official portraits of statesmen are printed.
Zaire
The most exotic bill of all ever used in the whole world. On the banknotes of the country that previously had this name, after the overthrow of the government as a result of a military coup in 1997, the image of former leader Joseph Mobuto was manually embossed using a template.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo did not print new banknotes.
Cook Islands Dollar
One of the most unusual banknotes is a ten-dollar bill of the Cook Islands, which depicts a topless woman riding a shark. Exotic bill can decorate any collection.
U.S. dollar
Banknotes of this country are not of interest to collectors, all over the world the population is more interested in the exchange rate of this currency. A well-established design has long made these bills boring.
But the last hundred-dollar bill of the sample of 2009 looks rather strange. The three-dimensional security strip of violet and the terracotta inkstand look completely inappropriate against the background of the classically restrained design of American banknotes of a smaller denomination. The absence of an oval frame around the portrait of the president also does not adorn her.
Venezuelan Bolivar
Banknotes unremarkable at first glance are easily confused with other South American bills. But, like the Zimbabwean dollar, the Venezuelan bolivar costs almost nothing. The country's monetary system is dominated by hyperinflation: one US dollar today costs nearly 250,000 bolivars.