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I have this bill and another denomination that is also in the trillions. When I asked the guy how much, he looked it up, shrugged with a laugh and said "You can have them both for 25 cents each." Then he joked that I better buy it quick because the value was dropping so fast, he might end up having to pay me to take it off his hands. Negative value. Because of how worthless they were, there are probably huge numbers of them circulating around with amateur collectors.

They're of historical interest, and definitely a conversation piece, but that's about it.

I buy and sell a few things with him over the years, so I thought that was fun.

PS: Gotta love their use of the Metallica font.

"The Zimbabwean dollar was 'the name of 4 official currencies of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 12 April 2009.' During this period, it was 'subject to periods of above-average inflation, followed by a period of hyperinflation.' Its use as an official currency was “effectively abandoned on 12 April 2009.”

According to a report by CNN, Zimbabwe’s central bank issued the 100 trillion dollar note on 16 January 2009; in other words, it was introduced 13 days after the Bitcoin network went live with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the genesis block (i.e. block 0) of Bitcoin, which had a reward of 50 BTC."