Zimbabwe issues 10,000,000-dollar note

2008-01-18 03:03:31 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Vengai Chigaramumba laughs while holding the new ten million dollar note introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008.

The Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono said the new note would provide relief to consumers who often go shopping with sacks of cash as Zimbabwe battles with the worlds highest inflation estimated at over 25,000 percent.