# What is the largest standard currency note available worldwide? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-largest-standard-currency-note-available-worldwide/419919 "2007-09-20T21:47:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-largest-standard-currency-note-available-worldwide/419919/61 "2014-01-23T19:53:35Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > [Here you go:](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270133,00.html) Sounds like a golden manhole cover! ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-largest-standard-currency-note-available-worldwide/419919/62 "2014-01-24T05:10:01Z")
> [@JASMINECURTIS](#): > > The largest notes in circulation are the 10000 Singapore Dollar note at todays rate of 2.11116 it is worth £4,736.73 & the 10000 Brunei Dollar note at todays rate of 2.07786 it is worth £4,812.64 That’s very odd, since the SGD and Brunei dollar are equal in value. If this were true, I could make money simply by changing currencies in a cycle. Yes, I know this is an old thread. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-largest-standard-currency-note-available-worldwide/419919/63 "2014-01-24T06:23:46Z")
Bart Simpson got himself a one million dollar bill. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-largest-standard-currency-note-available-worldwide/419919/64 "2014-01-24T11:36:51Z")
As of just over a year ago there were still [almost a million](http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/15/the-hunt-for-canadas-1000-bills-there-are-nearly-a-million-left-most-in-the-hands-of-criminal-elites/) of those Canadian $1,000 notes in circulation. From reading that, if I did have any I would be rather wary of paying them into the bank, for fear of immediately being hauled off by a Mountie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-largest-standard-currency-note-available-worldwide/419919/65 "2014-01-24T15:23:29Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > The largest we have here is a 1000-baht note. At the current exchange rate, that’s about US$29. Since paying by check is almost unheard-of here – certainly no stores will take personal checks – and people carry around big piles of cash to pay for something expensive, it’s amazing that there’s not more of a theft problem than there already is. Largest here is 100 yuan = about $14 I think. I have to pay my rent at 3-monthly intervals, in cash. The stack of notes looks like a man vs food challenge. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-largest-standard-currency-note-available-worldwide/419919/66 "2014-01-24T16:21:52Z")
> [@Lazlo Hapsburg](#): > > Bart Simpson got himself a one million dollar bill. Does that count? I have a couple of million-zaire bills from the early 1990s with a picture of Mobutu Sese Seko on them. Of course they were worth only about $1 US at the time. (In Zaire at that time, you had to be a millionaire to buy a beer.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-largest-standard-currency-note-available-worldwide/419919.md?page=3)