Which is why they had to withdraw the 10,000 and 5,000 Turkish lira coins from circulation. The metal was worth more than the face value, so people were exchanging larger denominations for smaller ones, melting them down and selling it for scrap value.

I believe that is is also true that the banks refuse to handle quantites less that 10,000 at a time and simple round them out if they are present in a transaction.

Quite why they have never simple revalued the denomination 10,000:1 I don't quite understand, maybe all the zeros make them feel rich:)

BTW. If you've got a mere $9 billion going spare...:)

..and remember there are a lot of things monks are supposed to be but lazy is not one of them