20 Billion Dollar Pen

[Fibonacci]

I got a set of 20 billion dollar bills from Zimbabwe over the weekend and I made this.

I think it works reasonably well as a second cast. The white line at the nib end is actually part of the bill.

I am debating making more of these blanks. With a 3/8" tube, you can get the agreement to pay with the twenty billion, or just "twenty billion dollars". I ended up with this, but I might make one the other way to see.

I might try a Sierra as well to see if I can fit all of it on those tubes.

 

[Drstrangefart]

That's just ridiculous. I love that brand of ridiculous. You have just achieved AWESOME!!!

 

[randyrls]

I have a 1 TRILLION dollar bill from Zimbabwe. That is an excellent pen. The bill appears to be some kind of plasticized film rather than true paper.

Update; I went and looked at the bill. It is 100 TRILLION dollars!!!

 

[sbwertz]

Those are REALLY cool pens.

Got my curiosity up and I went looking. Zimbabwe has no currency of its own now! It just uses foreign currency because of the horrendous inflation of its own currency. Here is a picture of the 100 trillion dollar bill

 

[rizaydog]

Thats really cool.