Recently, the author bought the latest edition of The World, which was published by Xinjiang People's Publishing House and edited by Wang Jianchuan and Zhang Yang. In the book, the paper "The largest denomination paper money" is described as follows: "The paper money with a denomination of' six billion yuan' was issued by Xinjiang Bank of the National Government on 1949, and the denomination was marked with' six billion yuan'. What is the actual value? It says' gold certificate equivalent to 10000 yuan'. /kloc-how much is the gold certificate value of 0/0000 yuan? It costs 77 grains of rice. However, due to its large denomination, it is the largest banknote in the world. "

The above-mentioned "six billion yuan" banknotes were issued by the former Kuomintang government "Xinjiang Provincial Bank" (1948 was reorganized by "Xinjiang Commercial Bank") on1May 949. The coin is horizontal (6 1× 146 mm), with purple front pattern, Sun Yat-sen's head on the left side, and "six billion yuan" in capital on the right side of the right horizontal book; The signer on the back of the coin is Janie Han Mu.

As this coin came out of the cage, it coincided with the implementation of the currency system reform by the Kuomintang and the introduction of the "golden certificate", so the words "equivalent to a golden certificate ×× yuan" were printed on the bank notes in Xinjiang Province (it is rare to mark the exchange price of two currencies together on the paper money at the same time! )。 If the Xinjiang currency of 600,000 yuan at that time was equivalent to 1 yuan, the Xinjiang currency of 6 billion yuan was only equivalent to 1 yuan.

So, is this huge banknote "the best in the world"? The explanation of the latest edition of the world must be ridiculous!

In the first issue of Xinjiang Coin 1998, Huang Minghui published the article "The Best Paper Money", in which he wrote: "Yugoslavia 1993, the largest paper money in the world, has a page value of 500 billion yuan (500 billion dinars). As soon as this kind of paper money came out, it occupied the' throne' of the 6 billion face value paper money issued by Xinjiang Commercial Bank in May 1940 (should be 1949). " Thus, according to Huang Wen, the former Yugoslavia's 500 billion dinars can be called "the highest in the world". But according to the author's research, it is still not the most valuable paper money in the world in history.

Some data show: "1June, 946, Hungary experienced the worst inflation in the world. At that time, the value of 193 1 Phnom Penh coin was1.3x 10, and the face value of 2 1 paper coin (which was issued by Hungary in 10) was/kl on June 3rd.

From this point of view, the 27 convenient notes of 10 issued in Hungarian history may be the largest denomination notes known so far. But whether this is the case or not needs further study. (Zhou Hongyuan, Zhou Huawei)