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I would have to say my favorite and it is rather strange.  Is the $5 Bill Murray.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b2/d0/02/b2d00266cde18d73c68eea640fc85858.jpg

My favorite money is Faroe Krona.
I used to think that on a banknote of 50 Faroe’s crowns the tentacles of a kraken are depicted, but it turned out to be a ram’s horn. But for me it’s probably still favorite money ("my favorite money" sounds strange)

Currently one of the strangest Fiat currency is Venezuelan Bolivar. Can you imagine that it is cheaper to use banknotes than toilet paper. You can use banknotes to light the fireplace because they worth less than kindling. That's what hyperinflation do with fiat currency.

https://i.imgur.com/h56Etuq.png

Or Zimbabwe dollars:

https://i.imgur.com/eozpfTK.png

Thats 100 000 000 000 000 $ bill. You have to be a millionaire to buy a chewing gum i guess.

Well, the new 150 Rs note of the Indian government. It was released as a joke I guess or something, but yeah, I mean, who actually issues a 150 note when one can just issue 100 and 50 notes lol. Seriously, fiat currencies are kinda fraud in their own way.

Yeah, it is hard to believe but it's happened before--I remember reading stories of stuff like this happening in Weimar Republic Germany (if I have the terminology correct). 

Obviously this is one of the great things about bitcoin, that it's a currency that can't be hyperinflated.  The only problem that comes to my mind is that while bitcoin's supply is limited, the total supply of all cryptocurrencies has the potential to become basically unlimited.  I'm not sure that's much of a problem since most new coins don't gain any real popularity, but still.

As far as OP's topic goes, there's a country that produces paper money with a vertical orientation and I can't remember which country it is.  I saw pictures of the notes and they looked pretty cool.  But honestly, all I ever see is US dollars so pretty much every foreign currency looks really cool to me.  I remember being fascinated with the paper money when I went to Canada as a kid.

I think that you are referring to German mark and what happened to it after WW1.
Here is a chart for all.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/German_Hyperinflation.jpg/800px-German_Hyperinflation.jpg

If you get your salary in 22 Oct 1923 after 2 weeks in 05 Nov 1923 it was worth 1/10. 2 weeks to turn full month salary into 1 family dinner in restaurant.


Yes. Hyperinflation for bitcoin is impossible but... I try to show in this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5094088.msg49096584#msg49096584) that bitcoin supply may not be limited to 21 milions due to "Money creation system". I'm interested in your opinion about that.

A couple of years ago I read that a few George Best's images (one of the best football players of all times) were used in the £5 bankote in Ireland:

https://i.imgur.com/XeRVO0J.jpg

I find it strange because, for starters, it is the face of a football player, I mean, you always see politicians, buildings, historic/cultural stuff, etc, on banknotes. Plus, not even legendary football players like Pele, Maradona, Cruyff, were honoured in this way (someone correct me if i'm wrong). Even if the notes were limited edition, it goes to show just how passionate Northern Ireland is when it comes to football.

But if that isn't weird, the check out these old banknotes from Finland with a bunch of people naked: https://imgur.com/a/3zh1uzd
You have to wonder just what the hell were those bankers thinking when they made these??  ;D

Indonesian Dollars, I didn't see the look as strange but their value is too low compared to US dollars,one USD it somewhere near 13K Indonesian dollars.I have some friends in my college days from that country from where I realized about their fiat value more precisely when I found few thousand dollars in my friend's wallet and I thought he is too rich to hold few thousands for his personal spendings then he said its not same as USD we have to spend few thousand dollars to buy a coffee there. :D :D

I am from Africa and the strangest currency I have seen is Zimbabwe dollar. Apart from the look and size of the country like plantain leave  ;D. The value is worthless. In up till today, I'm still wondering what could have make the price of the dollar to be so low. Some time I wonder how difficult it will be when you want to buy a brand new car with Zimbabwe dollars. You will have to good with brief cases full of Zimbabwe dollars  :D. That will be funny. Anyway, it might help reduce money laundering.

Thanks for sharing, I googled and have no regrets.
I didn't know there could be such big numbers on one bill wow!

The official currency of indonesia should be IDR but not indonesia dollars so this is first time to me know indonesia dollars from you and indonesian people calling their currency as Rupiah and for people outside indonesia calling it IDR and indeed compare to dollar then the currency is very cheap but i don't think it's the cheapest currencies so far because i had seen other currencies have low value compare to dollar such as Zimbabwe or Venezuela petro

Noobs! Let my fellow Indonesian take this to another level:

https://i.ibb.co/LvBQVJ1/914766-usil-menggambar-uang.jpg
Source, and see more here: https://www.brilio.net/duh/bikin-ngelus-dada-8-tingkah-usil-coret-coret-uang-bergambar-pahlawan-1809025.html

PS: I know it's funny and somewhat artistic, but please be aware that such action is punishable by law. Don't try this at home ;D

This isn't Bill Murray.This is Lincoln.Do you see the small sign under his image?
Every unknown fiat currency,which I see for the first time is a little bit weird to me.I'm only using my national currency+euro,so third world fiat currencies with their weird images look really strange. ;D
When I was a kid,I saw banknotes of 1000 Turkish lira and 1000 Romanian lea (their value is less than 1 euro,AFAIK). That was weird. ;D

In Vietnam, all bills have a picture of President HO CHI MINH on the back of the bill and the front is a place of the country of Vietnam.  And the largest face value of the bill is 500,000 Dong. This bill is equivalent to $ 23
https://i.imgur.com/504U19V.jpg

I have one of those hanging on my wall.
I bought it on Ebay a few years ago.
Just a memento of how it can happen ("slow at sstart, then all of a sudden" se DM graph above) to have BTCUSD in the millions.

Every true bitcoiner should have one of those.

I don't know if it's just me but I find Japanese yen to be strange. Its value is small that when you converted USD to yen you will have a thick amount of paper cash making you rich.
But I've heard the cost of living there is really expensive and makes me wonder how much paper money does a local have.
Someday I would like to visit that country to learn more about their culture.

Even I have a couple of these banknotes with me. I also got them from Ebay, sometime during 2014. I heard that the Zimbabwe Dollar is no longer used in that country and they are using foreign currencies such as the United States Dollar and the South African Rand instead. Feels bad.. Zimbabwe used to be one of the richest countries in Southern Africa region.

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image source https://finance.detik.com/moneter/d-2534356/soal-dolar-singapura-pecahan-10000-ada-yang-kaget-ada-yang-pernah-pegang

SGD 10,000 = USD 7,308
SGD 10,000 has become the favorite currency for bribery of corruptors in Southeast Asia.
Who can find a plausible reason why the Singapore Government issues money in the amount of SGD 10,000?

Nah.
They converted from Zimbawe Dollar to a "COMPLETELY-NEW-DOLLAR-PEGGED-ZIMBAWE-DOLLAR".
Then guess hat?
They de-pegged their Fiat shitcoin once again.

coins with a hole in the middle, allowing you to turn them into a part of some sort of jewelry.

I've ever seen and the craziest is the Pengo currency, this money was formed before the Second World War broke out, which is better known today is (Hungary).


Try to imagine with one 100 million billion paper currency valued at only 20 cents, this money was traded around the 1946 century.
But it is no longer in use, has been replaced by a currency called (Forint),
This is what I found the highest number of paper currencies, and the cheapest exchange rate. Only 20 cents.

I am a numismatist <Coin collector> and have been doing this as a hobby for several years. I kinda like the coins with the hole in the centre, like the five-yen coin or the fifty-yen coin. A lot of coins have these holes and the reason for that is to string them together as a kind of wallet, with a piece of rope.  ;D

Some ancient Chinese coins had squares cut into the centre instead of the round shape, because it was said that it was easier to string them together, when it has the square in the middle.  ???

I think the weirdness of some Fiat currencies are spilling over to Alt coins now, with people naming their tokens, things like PotCoin or TrumpCoin and Fonziecoin (FONZ), Selfiecoin, Pizzacoin and strange things like that.  :P

Well, my country is a little unique and creative in designing coins. They've walked the extra mile in innovating coin shapes. Others may think that coin = circle, but no, not when you're in the Philippines, at least years ago. I kind of missed them actually. But in a country where leaders are so fond of issuing new versions of coins and bills, you'd have to avoid getting too attached to a single design or shape.

Not only do we have a coin with a hole at the center like a doughnut, we also have a decagon coin, a square coin with smooth edges, and a coin with flower-like edges. Now, beat that!

https://i.imgur.com/I4PT6bL.png
(Coins are not in actual sizes. Further, all images are not mine. They are all searched through Google and pasted into a single page.)

To be honest I had never seen that 5 cents coin here in our country, I would love to have that coin as a part of my collections. I'm also a coin collector but the coin I have is about in the year 1980s.

This might sound common, but I really find dollar currency weird. I've always loved conspiracies and theories. And the eye is one of my favorites. It's so strange why does the Government has put an eye and the triangle on their fiat, but never revealed the reason why was it there. I find it strange as I don't really understand what would the eye really stand for. Is there anyone here who would share me an interesting article about it?

I kinda noticed that Ho Chi Minh is on every bill that the Vietnamese have during my stay in Hanoi. I kinda thought about the colorblind people for a sec but seeing how big those numbers are in the back and front, plus the unique design for each bill at the back, I know that they will be safe lol.

As for my pick, any currency that lets me experience being a 'millionaire' fascinates me. Here in the Philippines, having a million pesos is sufficient to buy you a used sports car, or a downpayment to a nice loft in the metros. In Vietnam, a million dong would get you a nice dinner, good haircut + shave and some more for booze and night life. In the US, having a million dollars gets you a nice car, possibly a nice house for 2 and a few tens of thousands savings in the bank.

I only experienced being a millionaire in Vietnam and the Philippines. I am yet to see visit other countries for my on-going field work. I wish I am also a millionaire back in Canada but.. Oh well.

I think that would be the Philippine peso itself. It is one of the worst-performing currency in Asia. Since there is no strange fiat currency in our country, maybe I can count those coins being used by the elderly. When they have these coins in the past, they put it in their doorsteps. Now they are even putting coins that are used and sometimes being mistaken as a coin that just fallen out of their pocket and most of the time it is hilarious.

Zimbabwean economy has since crippled resulting in hyper-inflation to buy bread you need a wheelbarrow full of Zimbabwean dollars. Yet this country has the highest literate population as per country literacy in African nations, but the former President messed up things. 

it is not only the former president that has made Zimbabwe's economy worse off, the policies taken seem to spoil its people to be unproductive, so that when oil prices fall they have no other reliable output. plus the chaotic economy makes this country become hyper inflation

I suppose the paper from they are made is more expensive than the bolivar....sad situation...

Has to be one of the ones that are severely affected by hyperinflation and you have their denominations in the trillions...

It's almost like an ironic reminder that what you're transacting with are simply worthless pieces of paper, even though initially, everything was backed by silver and gold.

Saving fiat in the long run in the bank is shooting yourself in the foot. There is no doubt that BTC currently doesn't have the transactional capabilities in practice of fiat yet, but it's still a much better long term store of value.

In our country, that would be the old 10 peso bill.

The person in there is Apolinario Mabini. He is one of the known names in our country as he is one of the leaders in the revolution against Spain. For me, he is just printed weirdly in that bill, just look it yourself. LINK HERE (https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.leftovercurrency.com%2Fexchange%2Fphilippine-peso%2Fwithdrawn-philippine-peso-banknotes%2F10-philippine-peso-banknote-mabini%2F&psig=AOvVaw1cakLeIMyCEaMuycrdqCS0&ust=1581317587814000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCNiZ7prxw-cCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD)

Lol, this made me laugh. Some people really do funny stuff even though they know it's illegal or punishable by the law and they know that this paper money may not be accepted if they do this but still they do this funny stuff.

Zimbabwe is literally a cautionary tale about what could potentially happen if the politicians get their way and do whatever the hell they want without people revolting about it. Normally, before all of that happened and it looked all that bad, people should have started a strike and a riot to stop what the country was trying to do and get the control of it.

Unfortunately in the world where media is controlled so much, revolution is seen as anarchy and that seen as bad people but do you really think people using a wheelbarrow amount of money to buy a bread is a better option than a few weeks of riots to stop the governments from doing whatever the hell they want? I certainly think it is not. For a while there was some example around the world but they were quickly solved and now we are living the troubles of it since they were unsuccessful.

Yup, I was about to say this one. Hyperinflation in Venezuela and Zimbabwe caused the value of its currency to significantly decrease while its face-value remained significantly high. Usually when the economic conditions of a country is on the red, the value of the currency drops. People on those countries have a higher demand on products but they cannot purchase anything due to the lack of supply on the market. With this in mind, the currency becomes worthless that they result in the barter system of trading.

Thank you for your experience of using money.  In my country, all the people are millionaires and the rich are those with more than 1 billion VND.  That amount is equivalent to about 83000 Usd.  Although the monetary value in our country is lower than in other countries, the consumption level is increasing quickly and I do not feel cheap at all.

You are right... Inflation is actually a government caused problem because of the policies they bring that doesn't support the economic. Such policies might enrich few people in government and leave the masses to drain in abject poverty. Taking appropriate measures to ensure that government puts on their thinking cap will help to better hyperinflation.

Yes, situation was really worse, in restaurants prices of products were changing in live, very frequently. If coffee was 5 euro for example, it was quickly becoming 15 euro. (During ww1 currency in Germany was Weimar Republic Reichsbanknote). But I am really amazed how quickly they were able to recover and build great economics.
This is the picture that shows how bad the situation was:
https://i.imgur.com/KHxtOCV.jpg

Governments are doing that manually, people in government make great money in it, they borrow - we pay. Just apply this to fiat and they'll shine too but as I said, they won't do it.

Canada produced paper money with vertical orientation and their 10$ banknote (Viola Desmond note) won international bank note reward.
Here is the image:
https://i.imgur.com/DzRgqcH.png

All these "funny looking" currencies are like that for a reason I suppose. Have you guys ever seen Canadian dollar? Maybe the inflation is not that high there or maybe the nation is amazing but seriously look at all the Canadian dollars and you will realize that they all look insanely funny to me. Maybe it is because of the colors or maybe it is another reason, I really don't know what causes it but to me the "one milliard x dollars" type of things are not the real funny ones, they are simply just sad and I do not find that all that funny at all, I find the funny looking ones very funny.

Euro and dollar for example is not funny at all because they are boring looking. So all in all, to me "funny" looking ones or strange ones are not because of the zeros attach to it but more about how they look.

I so much agree with the person that mentioned Zimbabwe currency. I use to think that the strangest fiat was the Iranian and Paraguayan Guarani currency till I came across the Zimbabwe fiat.
I wonder what figure they will create since they already reached up to trillion already. To them, the introduction of this note was to solve certain economic issues but yet things are no different.

It's not an official currency in our country (Philippines) but a certain group issued their own currency and printed their own money. It is not being recognized by the central bank of the Philippines. It's already weird to create their own currency but what's weirded is that in their paper money, it has the face of their queen! The Philippines doesn't have a queen because the Philippines is republic and we only have presidential form of government. Imagine a monarchy system and a queen in a republic and democratic country. That's definitely weird.

For me this is the funniest currency I've ever seen ;D. Though it was only drawn on the paper money and not the actual design, it still makes me amazed and smile at the same time. Only the gamers can relate to this, *sigh it feels good to reminisce the old days :D.
https://i.imgur.com/8BOY1R2.jpg

I believe that it’s not worth talking about the “old days”, because I’m already over 40 years old, but I still love to play “God of War” on the PlayStation and on the portable PSP.  ;D

You must be kidding me, I never heard about Indonesian dollars as long as I live in Indonesia. Our national currency is Rupiah, and I think it is not too bad compared with Zimbabwe dollars. :D I assume it is not too low, but yes it is quite low. 1 dollar equal to 13,600 rupiahs currently, but it seems having a better improvement than previous (14k). So, what is strange here?  ???

I don't know the exact word for Indonesian money so I just used dollar, now I know it is Rupiah.

I didn't get opportunity to see Zimbabwe dollars, so I just said what I had seen and felt strange at my first impression. :)

In my own personal opinion, the strangest fiat currency that i have ever seen is the Philippine Peso because here in our country we have change the design of our money for many times, and it is really frustrating that we don't really need and ask to change the design of our fiat, that is why it is really strange why our governments wanted to change our fiat many times.

I think the strangest Fiat currency I have ever seen is the Fiat itself .

It's made for the people but it's filling the pockets of politicians and rich men .
The poor is getting poorer and the rich is getting richer is rightly said , it's creating a havoc in the society , people are killing people over it .

At the end it was all for the welfare of people and was supposed to be better than the old system. But it is rather strange and evil to begin with.

Oh come on guys, do not tell me that THIS is the funniest thing you have ever seen ; https://imgur.com/iXDFr1R  . It is certainly the funniest looking thing out there, I don't get why you guys are sto strict about picking the ones with low value and all that fuss about Zimbabwe or stuff like that where people use bags of money to just buy one bread or whatever. That is something "sad" and not something "funny" in my own opinion but of course I can't say anything about yours, you are free to choose whatever you want.

I personally still think that Canadian dollar is the funniest thing I have ever seen, never seen any money in my entire life that looked so much like a monopoly money, its colors and design all looks like it is actually not a real money but a play money.

One of the banknotes from Peru depicts a spinning machine. It seemed to me very unusual!

i checked it on the web  , it was the one with a girl standing in front of those machines  ? if it is then its normal to me  and i dont see anything strange . other bills that i see above were also not un-usual but only funny because they put drawings on it  . dunno if they draw it themselves or they only grab it on the net  . strange currency supposed to be natural only  and not modified by someone else  . on our local fiat currency , i dont find anything strange here but i only notice that currencies  before are insects and animals , later on they remove it and replace by national heroes  .

I searched for information about the strangest currencies, and I found 1 thing. Well, that is the Hungarian currency, I got information that the currency has a value of 100 million billion pengos. whether it's still there today or not, but it's really strange. I don't think it will cost if we have 1000 pengo.

When I was ~10 years old I found a wallet on the street. When I opened it to check I noticed a lot of banknotes. Wallet directly in my pocket :))
I continued my walk... Once arrived at home I figured the banknotes were full of zeros. Jesus Christ! I couldn't sleep for several days, I felt like a real rich guy,  I didn't say it to my parents or a friend.

A month later I told my parents and asked them to take me to a bank to exchange them. I was already dreaming about those Reebok Pump.The teller told me it wasn't worth anything. It was an old-money from Yougoslavie and the money was devalued to zero.


A strange currency I have seen is a local currency in my country, other than the official EURO, decentralized more or less. 95% of people here don't know this money exists, but there are several but there are a dozen of it

I vote for island of Yap Rai stones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

I would pick the Philippine's Twenty Peso because, it displays our late president Manuel Quezon in which he is the one that have brought us are national language. National language is what symbolizes a country and it should be given importance everyday. It is also memorable because, it is mostly what I have receive when there will be holidays when I was a little.

I recognized.
Surely this is a currency with extremely large denominations. The cost of its creation and the effort of transporting it makes it valuable.

These unit of accounts are featured on Saifedean Ammous’ book “The Bitcoin Standard”. Rai Stones were counted, naturally, on the “hard money” camp. The funny thing is a few of those stones were “lost” during transport, at sea, So those were on the seabed. The inhabitants started trading “credit letters” on those lost Rai’s, securely stores, where everyone could see those, but nobody could touch...

http://inzoloto.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/interesnye-monety-s-izobrazheniem-lisic-2.jpg

I love limited series of all sorts of coins - collectible and for festive events. But one of my favorites is the Austrian 100 euro with a Fox family! Some countries still have coins with foxes, but this one is my favorite.

From my point of view, Philippines peso is the strangest fiat currency that I have ever seen because every decade the bank central of the Philippines always wanted to change the physical appearance of our currency that it makes it a little bit weird, and it makes difficult for people who has a visual impairment to identify the coins.

Indonesian dollar was the strangest Fiat currency I have ever seen for both its value and its characters printed in it. I mean, the art was just fine but it was not updated unlike other countries when they are having new Presidents or new Places that they can boast on their money. The value too is very low and you must have at least Millions of Indonesian dollar before you can afford a CANDY. Some really say that their officials are corrupt but can provide good jobs though I dont have proof for that.

The weirdest fiat currency I have ever seen, if the paper money has a pen scratch on it. Some even drew on the paper money,
because it's clear the person doing that doesn't respect the money. If I keep paper money in my wallet, I try to protect it well.
But what made me even more surprised was that the paper money that had been scribbled was still valid for use.

You guys do know that anyone can decline to accept any currency with stuff written or drawn on it right? I mean in most countries it is illegal to change the look of the paper fiat and if you do that anyone you give it to has the right to decline that if they want to.

Obviously people don't do it on 100 dollar bills usually (maybe few might) and do it on low level paper so that it wouldn't be hurting their finance to express their art on fiat, but it is still not allowed. Hence I think all of these pieces of paper with stuff on it that you guys shown are basically just unacceptable money, not something you can go ahead and use and expect it to be accepted. If you can just fool them or they just don't care they could still accept but they should not do that according to law.

Thanks for sharing. They are beautiful collectible coins. I wanted to know more and found the link to the source. On the website there are a description of these coins and others for those who like to collect real works of art.
Nature and animals are a gift from God  for everyone. Happy who knows how to appreciate all these blessings.

https://www.muenzeoesterreich.at/eng/produkte/the-fox (https://www.muenzeoesterreich.at/eng/produkte/the-fox)

I really want to start collecting all the coins with foxes that there are (and there are really a lot of them). Many of them are made incredibly beautiful. In addition, such coins could be a sort of investment because different limited series after a couple of decades soars in price

For me the strangest form of fiat currency is the ones affected by hyper inflation. Like in Venezuela for example where the value is changing weekly and you can't basically buy anything anymore with cash. When you have to use a one year salary from a few years back to buy a meal right now. As no intrinsic value is in the paper money and trust factor of the government is at 0 just shows us how bad things can get when only relying in fiat currencies.. Most of the payments are done online now in USD or other major currencies. I would not give my crypto currencies back for any fiat's.

I have a little panel, hanging on the wall directly behind my desk at home, with a 100,000,000,000 USD from Zimbawe. One identical to the one PlanB sports in his Twitter cover picture.
IT is just a memento about not trusting central bankster.

I am a numismatist ( or coin/money collector for those of you not familiar with the term ) and have been collecting for quite a few years now.  I love coming across altered money that is really unique.  One of the coolest notes I came across was one that had a Lord of The Ring depiction all over the note.  The "artist" re-created several scenes from the movie and honestly I couldn't believe they put it in to circulation it was so cool.

This is another one of my favorites.  It's a bitcoin paper wallet created by Kialara.  It came under fire as some on online forums such as Twitter questioned the legality of doing this.  Some described it as illegal and defacing. ( It turns out it's actually not ).

https://i.imgur.com/3FU1ftt.jpg

I am a fiat currency collector from various countries in the world, and in my opinion there is nothing strange. Every country has an
interesting and unique design, maybe I am quite amazed by the fiat currency that comes from the Philippines. Some of the coins
from the Philippines are not like other countries that are in the form of a circle, but some Philippine coins are in the form of a square,
decagon, and even those shaped like flowers.

True or Fake (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5219568.msg53666359#msg53666359). This is the strangest fiat currency I came across. Maybe the economically fallen country currencies will have such denomination. Every country will have some currencies that were printed very limited. Those currencies too looks strange as those won't be available in common.

The strongest currency as of now is going to be either the Swiss Franc (CHF) or the Japanese Yen (JPY). These are the currencies which have witnessed the least decrease in purchasing power, during the last few decades. To add to this, the inflation rate in both these countries are near zero. I would have mentioned some of the fiat currencies from the GCC nation as well, but they are not doing that well since 2014.