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twoinvallarta
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« on: March 09, 2008, 11:54:48 am »

But never the less,it is currency,and a lot of it!Thought it may interest a few of you.

Here we have a native Zimbabwean going for a loaf of bread.

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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2008, 01:19:13 pm »

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Here we have a native Zimbabwean going for a loaf of bread.

But how big is the loaf that he is going to get?



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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2008, 02:03:47 pm »

By the time he gets to the shop he'll have a nice down payment for it. Inflation is out of this world right now. Not quite Wiemer Germany levels, but crazy none the less.

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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2008, 04:08:53 pm »

I'm wondering about how many special numbers are out there? ??? ??? :-\
Maybe a nice solid is waiting you.  But the drawback is in the time you sort all these notes out, the value will have nicely dropped... :-[ :-[ :-\

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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2008, 07:22:39 pm »

Hopefully the american dollar doesnt do this to soon!!

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twoinvallarta
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« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2008, 11:23:10 pm »

You guys are hilarious! ;D At the risk of bringing down moderator wrath(I promise to control myself Brent! :)),the artistry is so superb I couldn't resist,And it's on topic for this off topic thread.


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« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2008, 07:13:11 am »

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And it's on topic for this off topic thread.

Yes, off topic for sure. I think this should be in the "US Currency" thread under specimen notes.

Did you notice SPECIMEN $20 note (the last note in the row) ???.



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venga50
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« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2008, 08:33:49 pm »

By the time he gets to the shop he'll have a nice down payment for it. Inflation is out of this world right now. Not quite Wiemer Germany levels, but crazy none the less.

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Of course it's possible that a lot of the bundles of those Zimbabwean notes have scrap paper as fillers or - lol - counterfeits! :P  I suppose the merchant would want to count it all before giving the poor guy his bread.  Meaning the guy would get a VERY stale loaf of bread.

Guess this guy has his weekly pay delivered to him by a dump truck or something.  On the bright side he will never run out of toilet paper...

UPDATE: out of curiosity I went to www.xe.com to get the exchange rate for Canadian dollars to Zimbabwean dollars.

100 bucks Canadian makes you a multi-millionnaire in Zimbabwe:

100.00 CAD = 2,931,332.54 ZWD

You've gotta love that .54 at the end  ;D
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« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2008, 10:58:25 pm »

100.00 CAD = 2,931,332.54 ZWD
I'd like that in pennies please.

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