Which currency for play money? [closed]

I'm running a (one off) game for some friends (in the UK), in which notes will be required. I think it's probably cheaper to do currency exchange for some actual bank notes, then change it back again afterwards; rather than buy toy money.

I have specific needs (60*1, 60*5, 24*10, 6*50) in notes.

Two questions really:

Would a currency exchange be likely to fulfill my request for exact note amounts like that?
What is the cheapest available currency that would have notes in those denominations. While I trust my friends, I don't really want to play with 900 USD worth of cash.

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Best Answer

I'd forget about the selling back part, and just buy worthless notes off eBay!

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For example, this seller sells unused notes in bulk from all sorts of obscure countries, including these lovely packs of Mongolian 1, 5, 10 and 50 tugrik notes, with each pack of 100 notes selling for around 6 GBP (plus shipping). Or maybe you'd like some Kyrgyzstani tyiyn? This means you could get beautiful mint notes for well under 10 pence a pop.

And in case you were thinking about selling them back anyway, at time of writing 1 tugrik is worth around 0.0005 USD.