# Is that half a million in your pocket or ...

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**Created:** [April 25, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-half-a-million-in-your-pocket-or/300976 "2005-04-25T04:40:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![EarthStone777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EarthStone777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EarthStone777)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-half-a-million-in-your-pocket-or/300976/21 "2005-04-27T11:35:32Z")

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> [@Sternvogel](#):
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> Hungary once issued a [100 quintillion pengo banknote](http://tomchao.com/hb12.html), and printed (but did not release into circulation) a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s one sextillion) pengo note.

Thanks for that link. Checking Hyperinflation and Yugoslavia, I learned that my bill is the one with the most 0’s ever printed. So it may not be technically the highest denomination, but IMHO it’s the coolest looking.

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