Comments on: 100 trillion dollar banknote from Zimbabwe, on sale for 90 cents

By: Saaid Rahbeeni

Saaid Rahbeeni — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:29:00 +0000

Could b a good time to stock up on Zim dollars, maybe, by some miracle, the currency appreciates again, then change your notes back to your local currency.

By: CLamb

CLamb — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:50:00 +0000

If it were counterfeit it would be much more expensive.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:02:00 +0000

After returning from a trip to Russia* I still had stacks and stacks of ruble notes and handed most of them out to friends. Being colorful and interesting they made nice presents.

*When I booked that trip I was going to the Soviet Union. When I got on the plane I was going to Russia. That’s one of the joys of travel.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:12:00 +0000

Yeah but the old man in the mountain looks like something. There are naturally carved stone sculptures out there for sure. This is probably one of them, but it just looks like a pile or rocks.

By: teapot

teapot — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:54:00 +0000

Now everyone can has a 100 trillion dollar note:
http://www.reposter.net/2013/03/print-yourself-one-hundred-trillion-dollars-to-save-yourself-90-cents/

By: Pekar

Pekar — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:17:00 +0000

I sold one of these bills on Craigslist for $50 a couple years ago. I felt guilty and gave him two hundred trillion dollars instead.

By: Kratoklastes

Kratoklastes — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:18:00 +0000

A French chap of my acquaintance from an old banking dynasty (the Leygues) has an entire wall that holds framed stock certificates going back to the 1700s – each generation’s investments had at least one that ‘went to zero’, and those certificates are the ones that were framed as a cautionary tale to future generations.

It’s a fascinating idea for decoration (but I’m almost certain that the person in question had the idea himself and then collected the exemplars: bankers always lie).

Anyhooo… I’ma git me one of them thar Zim-bub-way big-denom notes, and be a multi-trillionaire, bitches!

By: BillStewart2012

BillStewart2012 — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:50:00 +0000

Remember that Zimbabwe has already devalued their currency a few times – they’ve dropped at least 30 zeroes from the money since they started hyperinflating. As a friend of mine put it “They’ve diluted it so much that the bills only contain homeopathic quantities of money.”

By: Rogoraeck

Rogoraeck — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:45:00 +0000

So everyone can become a “trillionaire”

By: Symbiote

Symbiote — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:11:00 +0000

Ireland’s pile of rocks: http://group.ulsterbank.com/images/content/1960-1970.jpg

New Hampshire’s pile of rocks: http://www.goldcoinsandsilvercoins.com/600px-New_Hampshire_quarter__reverse_side__2000.jpg

At least they don’t put God on their money.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:05:00 +0000

A friend of mine went to Zimbabwe about five years ago and gave a slide-show party when he came back and gave out billion(?) dollar notes as party favors.

By: Kris Åsard

Kris Åsard — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:58:00 +0000

Come now, that looks nothing like the Horta!
It is, however, the spitting image of “Rocky” from MLPFIM:
http://youtu.be/JHy3ZhY9VKs

By: Chauncey Scott

Chauncey Scott — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:43:00 +0000

So this is how King Jofi Jofur afforded his lavish lifestyle.

By: zim99

zim99 — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:34:00 +0000

i’m a Zimbabwean. the price paid here of 90 cents. Ironically is way more valuable than when printed. when the note came out – you couldn’t exchange it for 90 cents on the black market. it was worth fractions of one cent.
it was cheaper to use the notes for toilet paper. than actually buying the toilet paper.

i did an “illegal” currency deal in the city – where I had a pick up truck of local notes. took me an hour to load it onto the buyers pickup truck.

the USD i received in exchange- easily fitted in my wallet.

in the end, people were weighing the money. and quoting kgs. instead of trying to calculate the numbers. and remember we removed 6 zero’s off the currency before we hit the 100 trillion note.

people starved. shops were empty. it remains a brutal dictatorship. it deserves it’s first freedom ever.

it went from a white racist dictatorship, to a black racist dictatorship with massive poverty and even more death.

but tonight, right this moment, that you read this. someone in my country is being tortured, beaten, starved.
the 100 trillion note is amusing.

but people should know that it stands for 100 trillion cries for help.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:14:00 +0000

How can I be sure it is not counterfeit?

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:05:00 +0000

Hell you could get enough and make wallpaper.

By: theSamLowry

theSamLowry — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:46:00 +0000

Hopefully Zimbabwe gets on the ball and starts selling their currency – seems to be the only guaranteed source of income.

By: James Penrose

James Penrose — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:38:00 +0000

So, this is what that guy in Nigeria intends to send me, really soon now?

Now I know the money exists, I can send him the cash he needs for the emergency fees.

By: Ernest Valdemar

Ernest Valdemar — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:35:00 +0000

“2) What does its say about your country where the most interesting thing you can find to put on your money is a pile of rocks.”

Great Zimbabwe

Marvelous country, magnificent history. Shitty current rulers.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:07:00 +0000

1) I love the font that the “trillion dollars” is in.

2) What does its say about your country where the most interesting thing you can find to put on your money is a pile of rocks.

3) Collecting stamps when I was younger I saw postage stamps that reflected the hyper inflation of Germany. I think the biggest stamp denomination I had was 10 million marks.

By: paddle2paddle

paddle2paddle — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:40:00 +0000

I’ve got about 400 trillion in Zimbabwean notes that I bought for my classroom for when I talk about hyperinflation. It’s fun to show students the big stacks of bills that people used to buy things like loaves of bread and then show them the bills themselves. They’re also very pretty, and I may frame them at some point in time.

By: Peacen1k

Peacen1k — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:31:00 +0000

Gonna hold out for a 100 bazillion note.

By: Humbabella

Humbabella — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:11:00 +0000

I’m think the actual value of the bill is nothing, not 4 cents. I’ve had one in my wallet for a couple of years now. The person who gifted it to me was fairly sure that they were put up for sale by a former finance minister who had to flee the country, though he couldn’t prove it.

By: Ernest Valdemar

Ernest Valdemar — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:54:00 +0000

Somewhere, in a box in a closet, I’ve got an inch-thick stack of Weimar Republic Deutschmarks that my grandfather had picked up somewhere. Should I sell them on eBay, one at a time?

By: Albie Farinas

Albie Farinas — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:53:00 +0000

actually it’s worth slightly less than 4 cents…

By: Lupus_Yonderboy

Lupus_Yonderboy — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:49:00 +0000

These will go great for my Snow Crash LARP, I just need to put Reagan’s face on them.

By: Lupus_Yonderboy

Lupus_Yonderboy — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:48:00 +0000

Don’t you mean Five Hundred And Forty Eight TRILLION?

By: Keith Tyler

Keith Tyler — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:41:00 +0000

That $0.90 price is about a 250% markup over the face value, BTW.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:39:00 +0000

Whats the exchange rate for neopets?

By: Katie Scully

Katie Scully — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:34:00 +0000

$4.95 shipping, though.