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New Member
Canada
3 Posts |
Is One dollar the smallest denomination for Zimbabwe?
It looks cool, I wanna get one of these.
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Pillar of the Community
3660 Posts |
I really don't know, but I would imagine so. Interestingly enough, the one dollar note was printed the year before the ridiculous note, so I don't know if inflation set in over the time span of one year or what happened there.
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Valued Member
 Australia
126 Posts |
Haha good idea zeewool, I will purchase the $1 note for comnparison also  |
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Valued Member
United States
128 Posts |
Google "Zimbabwe Hyperinflation" and you can read about what happened. It is interesting and unfortunate. I bought a Z$ 50 Trillion note the other day. It's kind of cool and an interesting conversation piece.  |
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Valued Member
United States
162 Posts |
I picked one up for $3 off ebay, at the time you could buy whole bricks of them for around $2 or less each (I forget how many were in a brick, but it was a lot). Since then the price has gone up considerably and $5ish seems to be the going rate. I didn't think to get a 1 dollar one, that does make a nice contrast. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
790 Posts |
I've got the 100 Trillion bill and and a 1c from 1997. If you could only take the 100 Trillion to the Zimbabwe bank and buy rolls of 1c coins, you would be a millionaire in scrap metal!
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
898 Posts |
This note interests me, they all do just because they're something crazy compared to the U.S. Looks like the going rate now is 13-20 dollars on ebay after they heated up in demand. |
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Valued Member
Australia
192 Posts |
The demand has heated up, most of them have been sold on the collector market so they are becoming scarce.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2124 Posts |
Congrats for using the search tool instead of creating a new thread.
Yeah, nice banknote, I've some of these "inflation" banknotes.
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New Member
South Africa
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1041 Posts |
4 more notes and you own the country
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Valued Member
Australia
69 Posts |
Lol
I think I have all the values.. from one Zim $ to one trillion
During UDI in the 1970s I had a small business that operated from Estcourt that provided Southern Rhodesia under Ian Smith with thousands of shoe laces for sand shoes..
We simply acted as a go-between with the package never being opened but a 20% profit on each reinvoiced order on this boycotted item was big dollars :)
And in the early 1970s I remember going on a seven day trip around Southern Rhodesia when the Rand was worth less than the currency under Ian Smith
I had been told that Kodak had stopped providing S Rhodesia with film so I took hundreds of the unused spools ready to go film with me and scored about 3:1 in every transaction with stores in places like Salisbury and Bulawayo that were out of such luxuries.
A very cheap holiday indeed
Scott Balson
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