Zimbabwe P-61-64 - Foreign Paper Money - Set of 4 Agro-Cheque Notes

4 Special Agro Checks. 5, 25, 50 and 100 Billion Dollars, P-61, 61, 63 and 64.

The Reserve Bank issued Special Agro (Agricultural) cheques from 15 May to 31 July 2008. Although of a different design and with the intention for use only by farmers, it had found its way into regular use because of the parallel functions with bearer Cheques and the exponential rise of food prices. Following the 2008 currency reform, Agro and bearer cheques were phased out on 1 January 2009.

The four denominations in this series are not the same by dimensions as the $25 billion note used different paper from the 500 ZWD banknote of 2001. The $100 billion ($10¹¹) Agro Cheque was the largest of the second dollar, sharing the record for the most number of zeroes depicted on a banknote with the Yugoslav 500 billion ($5×10¹¹) dinar note of 1993, up until January 2009.