Why would you start with the de facto denomination instead of with a higher one? Tired of carrying bricks of 1000 shilling notes? Here’s a 20k shilling note so you can carry ten instead of a brick.
That's not how it works. There's no authority over the production of the shilling - anyone can make them, and they therefore trade at the cost of production.
Which means that regardless of the number you print on the notes, if buying something took a brick of them at the old denomination, it will take a brick of them at the new one too.
