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Sith_Mauler
Posts: 1,851
Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
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Land of the poor millionaires
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http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2008/10/zimbabwe-land-of-poor-millionaires.html
Due to the country’s hyperinflation rate of over 231,000,000% a year, the financial authorities were forced to release larger and larger bills in order to help people buy the simplest things without carrying bricks of bills with them. When the $10,000,000 bill was released early this year, it was worth about $4 US, but it soon became as worthless as the previous bills and now you can find the 100 billion dollars bill which you can use to buy 3 eggs.
When people want to go to a restaurant they are again forced to carry mountains of money with them. This all began in the year 1980, when president Mugabe came to power and transformed the whole country into a giant agricultural field. Now the inflation is through the roof, 80% of the population is unemployed and a third of the population has left the country. At least they can take pride in the fact that they have the highest denomination bills in the world.
Still think its bad here?
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Maleraka
Title: Postponing the inevitable
Posts: 481
Registered: 2002-9-24 18:26:05
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As a casual collector of foreign currency, I would love to get my hands on some of those bills.
EDIT: I found 5 one hundred trillion zimbabwe dollar notes on ebay for $20.99 US....
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Love to see how this would work out in the us. I would love to see a billion or a trillion dollar bill  .
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Banelord_FF
Title: Cunstrukshen Werker
Posts: 321
Registered: 2002-1-3 14:33:41
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Maleraka posted:
As a casual collector of foreign currency, I would love to get my hands on some of those bills.
EDIT: I found 5 one hundred trillion zimbabwe dollar notes on ebay for $20.99 US....
Wait 30 minutes and you can get it for $0.27.
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http://www.templetoncollectibles.com/
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BritonGuy
Title: Serious Business
Posts: 1,567
Registered: 2004-3-4 20:43:50
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Date Posted:
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Coming to the US soon.
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TickyAtack
Posts: 1,303
Registered: 2001-10-23 15:46:32
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Sith_Mauler
Posts: 1,851
Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
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Land of the poor millionaires
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I got some old Iraqi money I brought back from the sandbox.
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Greyfox_MT
Posts: 117
Registered: 2000-4-19 03:53:13
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Land of the poor millionaires
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Sith_Mauler posted:
I got some old Iraqi money I brought back from the sandbox.
I knew a guy in Kuwait who had a pallet of Iraqi Dinars and swore they would be of value in the future....
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