The inverse thread to ScotsGreyhound's thread for huge banknotes! This is for notes on the other end of the spectrum, which may be less visually impressive, but still interesting nonetheless.
Here is another scale display, with a US $1 note for scale again:
Small notes were often issued in times when coinage was scarce, often during times of conflict and war. The notes above are from the USA, China, Hong Kong, Latvia, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Cuba, Fiji, and Italy; the best one there are the US fractional notes and the Czechoslovak 5 Korun specimen note.
And of course, obligatory French, and French colonial notes:
All of these notes were issued during/after wars.
