Desi
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Re: If you thought the economy was bad here....
Zimbabwe's currency is now collectable, worth more on eBay then on the streets 
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Wolfie00
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| said by Desi  :Zimbabwe's currency is now collectable, worth more on eBay then on the streets I'm tempted, but I can't find a good price on a whole wad of them. The cheap ones are just a couple of bills, and the bundles come to real money.
A lot of them are being sold out of African countries, which is a nice example of entrepreneurialism: the dude has a banknote for $500 million (which if you are reading this today is worth about half a cent, tomorrow maybe one-third of a cent!) and sells it on eBay for $20. That's 4,000 times face value!
This just gets better -- they don't only have huge denominations, but also this kind of thing -- now, this would be absolutely perfect to leave as a tip someplace where the service was pretty bad!
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Wolfie00
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| That's right -- they are all like that, though. That's as real as it gets, down there in Zimbabwe! They also have some other weird stuff called "Agro-notes" which are something even more flaky!! Basically, none of it is worth the paper it's printed on, in terms of intrinsic value. |
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