New Zimbabwe reports, on February 12, 2015:
legislators proposed that the governor at the time, Gideon Gono be given a medal for his unorthodox efforts to rescue Zimbabwe’s beleaguered economy
Some of those extraordinary efforts led to Dr. Gono being awarded an Ig Nobel Prize. The prize citation reads:
2009 Ig Nobel Prize for Mathematics: Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank, for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of numbers — from very small to very big — by having his bank print bank notes with denominations ranging from one cent ($.01) to one hundred trillion dollars ($100,000,000,000,000).
REFERENCE: Zimbabwe’s Casino Economy — Extraordinary Measures for Extraordinary Challenges, Gideon Gono, ZPH Publishers, Harare, 2008, ISBN 978-079-743-679-4.
Here is one of those hundred trillion dollar bills:
