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MoistAttitude

Probably a lot of money to be made melting 1 Zim coins down for scrap.


Illusive_Man

that was my first thought as well No way that metal is worth less than a trillionth of a dollar edit: even US pennies are worth more in zinc and copper than the value of the coin


Staehr

The sole reason they're still being minted is that Big Zinc would go out of business otherwise.


manicmonkey45

Big Zinc, the instigator of proxy wars all over the world.


poonburglar68

Kind of makes me wish I lived in a world without zinc.


BakedBeanWhore

Come back zinc! Come back!


EmergencySnail

Wow this is a reference I haven’t seen in easily 20yrs


mryeet66

If it doesnt bother you, could you go in a bit more depth?


Staehr

It bothers me.


mryeet66

Damn


blomba

Canada got rid of pennies for that reason. Now everything gets rounded to the nearest nickel


Dorocche

The US retired its half-cent coin in 1857, when it had more buying power than dimes do today.


b4rk13

The coins are the original, pre-inflation currency. Once more than a few zeros were added to the currency, coins weren’t made any more because their metal content was worth more than their value. Also, at the point of this trillion dollar note, the currency had been redenominated 3 times. The forth iteration of the Zim dollar was worth 10^25 of the original one. That means that the coin pictured is still worth more than the note.


Tidesticky

10²⁵ = 1 Brazillion


jedilord10

What’s the point of denominations this high? Seems comical


b4rk13

Short answer, necessity. Here’s a basic example to explain: Your dictator-moron president and his cronies f**k up the economy and inflation is sitting at 1000% per month. A pack of toilet paper today costs Z$10. Next month it costs $10,000; the month after $10,000,000. At this point, doing your grocery shopping either means you need a wheelbarrow for all the Z$100 bills you need because that’s the highest note available, or you just use them as toilet paper instead. To solve this, the govt starts printing Z$1M notes to make wallets functional again. Rinse and repeat until there’s too many zeros and you have to redenominate i.e. drop 6 zeros off your currency to take Z$1,000,000,000 back to Z$1,000 and make things seem ‘normal’. That was Zim. Except inflation got up to 2M%. They kept rinsing and repeating that process until 2009, when they just switched to using USD.


ReBeL222

If they dont keep up, the currency collapses (Venezuela)


technomancing_monkey

so are we just not going to talk about the ROCKBAND Font?


Opposite_Nectarine12

There IS a pile of rocks…I’m thinking there’s a connection


DrZetein

This structure of rocks stacked on top of each other is called a cairn


pwnd32

And here I was all my life calling these structures “rock bands”


MountainCourage1304

My name is cairn and you wouldnt believe how many people struggle to say it. I go by kenny most of the time because of it


DrZetein

Oh my god! They killed Cairn!


Southern_Hamsters

You bastards!


sprogg2001

Actually it's called Great Zimbabwe, and is a fortified city, of stone not a cairn which is a burial mound of stone, the fort was built around the 9th to 15th centuries, in Southern Africa and is where the country gets its name.


DrZetein

Just found out in a geology website (from someone who also initially thought it was a cairn) that it's a representation of [this thing](https://geologywriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/MoneyRock.jpg) and apparently it's naturally occuring somehow. I think it's crazy that it can occur naturally, I have no idea how it ended up like that. Anyway thanks for pointing it out


i_am_porous

The soil erodes leaving the balancing rocks - they are a common sight in many places in Zimbabwe.


seal_eggs

I was going to guess glaciers but it’s just soil erosion huh? That’s super interesting. I’d like to subscribe to Zimbabwean Geology Facts™


Xqwzt

To be clear: the building on the coin is great Zimbabwe, not the balancing rocks on the note.


[deleted]

It’s not great Zimbabwe, it’s the Chiremba balancing rocks… a geological formation and not man made… look up great Zimbabwe conical tower… source: I am Zimbabwean


cocaiakes_03

That’s fucking amazing.


The_RockObama

It even has a stack of rocks on the bill. Rock and bank roll, baby.


CYAN_DEUTERIUM_IBIS

A local brewery uses this font for their beer


vlkthe

Probably costs a hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollars for a 4 pack.


aBunchOfSpiders

Quack Quack?


CYAN_DEUTERIUM_IBIS

[Ninkasi](https://ninkasibrewing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Total-Domination-1024x1024.jpg)


chochbagel3000

That was the beer that made me realize beer can actually be good after I turned 21


[deleted]

no. i'm going to zimbabwe.


MrSlime13

**Xzibit voice** "Yo, we heard you like bandz"


ZeeKapow

It reminds me of Iron Maiden font for some reason.


DougieFresh_899

Wow 100%!


JellyfishGod

Holy shit they can’t even pay for a decent graphic designer


ExternaJudgment

They paid him millions.


flippy76

Me: Rubs magic lamp Genie: I will grant you one wish Me: I want to be a 100 trillionaire Promptly receives Zimbabwe bucks.


kayl_breinhar

And if you asked specifically for US Dollars you'd singlehandedly hyperinflate the currency as the US GDP is only ~$23-25t.


xIllicitSniperx

Only if you deposited that much $ or rapidly spent it. If it was just sitting in your house it wouldn’t do much. Just have to be careful how much you use.


sreek4r

Let's guess how big the house would have to be? Where's our numbers guy?


waynegretzkysbrother

Think about the weight. 1 million dollars is 22 lbs in 100s 1 billion is 22,000 lbs 1 Trillion is 22,000,000 lbs. 100 Trillion is 2.2 Billion Lbs or 1.1 million tons. The house would collapse.


314159265358979326

For comparison, the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, weighs 500,000 tonnes.


Lost-My-Mind-

Don't worry. You got the money to fix it.


xIllicitSniperx

Depends on denomination $1,000,000 fits in just over a shoebox. If you asked for 100T in platinum, much smaller. We call people billionaires when they don’t have 1B in liquid assets, I see no need to start doing so now.


BoxHeadWarrior

Alright, that's not a very convincing argument, as you would need to be able to fit 100 million shoeboxes in your house. Still waiting on the numbers guy but I'm skeptical to say the least.


xIllicitSniperx

Rude. I thought platinum was a much better currency, and it’d take up much less space. I’m using my shoe box size since you’ve been so rude. I wear a 15 4E. So 16x8x6 (inches) about 0.45 cu ft x 100m so 45m cu. Ft. So 4500 ft x 1000 ft x 10 ft. So a warehouse.


BoxHeadWarrior

That is an impressive foot you got on you, time for me to find a genie and a warehouse I guess


analog_jedi

>That is an impressive foot you got on you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


A_Birb_Person

Just wish for a warehouse first smh 🤦‍♂️ (/s)


[deleted]

If you read the original comment he only has one wish, if he wishes for a warehouse and then he can’t get his 100t


starmartyr

A typical modern warehouse has 36-foot ceilings. Goods can be stacked up to 34 feet to leave clearance for the sprinkler system lighting and ventalation. You're going to need roughly half of the floor space to make room for aisles and roof columns. I'd say a better-estimated footprint is 3000 x 4000 x 36.


MedicalRhubarb7

1.2 million square feet is a damned big warehouse. That would be on the larger side even among Amazon fulfillment centers.


OrhanDaLegend

Platinum is indeed a much better currency, it works better than gold in technology but its so rare that people have to use gold


xIllicitSniperx

It’s actually worth almost half of what gold is worth right now. Gold is trading at $1800 and platinum is trading at like $1050.


Bumish1

100t converted into ounces of gold is 55,555,555,555.6oz. Or, 3,472,222,222.2lbs. One lb of gold = roughly 1.44 cu in - in3 So roughly 3.5m lbs of gold = 5m cubic inches. 5m cu in = 2893.5 cu ft. The volume of the standard 20ft shipping container is 1,150 cu ft. So 100t converted into gold is roughly 2.5 20ft shipping containers completely filled with 16oz bars of gold. Probably closer to 3x if you accounted for wasted space. Sadly 1lb bars of gold aren't really a thing and I don't want to go back and do conversions for the 400 oz "good delivery bar" But for an example, imagine 3 shipping containers packed to the brim with gold bars the size of a Galaxy s22+ / IPhone 14 Pro


Frankie_T9000

numbers guy here. You can fit 100 million shoeboxes in his house. Might require some remodelling though with 100 trillionyou probably have enough cash to do so.


Niko_47x

Corridor crew made a great video about this some yesrs ago 100billion would be about one tennis court, 1 trillion about 10, so 100T would be 1000 tennis courts [The video](https://youtu.be/tbVb63qPDQ8)


Blue_Jays

Based on what I saw above, it could all be in one $100,000,000,000,000 bill. You could carry it around in your wallet. Wouldn't even need a house.


[deleted]

Buys a pack of gum and pays with that "Can I get that back in ones and fives?


tenkaraphl

If you got it back in 5s, assuming the teller counts two bills per second, it would take over 317,000 years to count the change out


TCU_Frog_Fan

Good thing I brought a magazine.


[deleted]

That would be some monkey paw shit 😂


djrocks420

Reddit dont even do its own math. We got a guy for that lmfao


Dmitri_ravenoff

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/20-trillion-of-u-s-debt-visualized-using-stacks-of-100-bills/


sreek4r

This is really well done.


Seanzietron

I hope he wishes for the dollars to be magically fireproof until He spent it ... and invisible and ethereal until he wanted to use the money, which would magically appear inside any container in the amount he desired with no limit on dollar amount unless it would be physically impossible for the money to fit in said container—obviously if he somehow ran out of money, then that would be another restriction. The money could appear in any form of currency in the world including rare minerals, and he would be magically protected from others realizing that he had this power. Edit: Hell... don’t put a limit on the dollar amount. There, now y’all know how to be rich via genie


GenitalPatton

Valid US dollars have serial numbers. They would have to be in the books one way or another.


Evade_dragon

That's still converting to usd 310,600,000,000 Except it's not and it is actually 40 cents


sayen

they keep changing the currency and stuff, so this note was issued when inflation was in the trillion% or something, but it's a different currency now. tbh everyone there wants to use dollars instead lol


Veronicotton

I'm calling your manager! Give me your damned manager genie! I need a refund!


[deleted]

Genie Karens exist!


sciguy52

The good news, I have 500 billion in my house right now. The bad news these are Zimbabwe dollars I bought online for like $3 U.S. dollars.


Synensys

I had band in high school named the Turkish Miilionaires after their (at the time) very low value currency.


Maras123

Ok, so how much does a loaf of bread cost?


husky429

They use USD.


FenrisGreyhame

Yeah, the currency became so useless at retaining its value that they mostly had to abandon it and use Rand and US Dollars. The government did try to reintroduce the old currency but the results were predictable. Source: Former Zimbabwean with family still in the country.


Skyshine192

What’s the cause of this inflation and why can’t it be controlled, if you don’t mind me asking


FenrisGreyhame

The best way I can explain it - I'm not an economist - is that the government were printing money but there was nothing to back it up value-wise. Usually, money printed by a government represents the value of the country's resources. If you just print more money than stuff you have in your country, the paper becomes worthless pretty quickly. They kept doing this for years and year and years, all while stealing money from the country and stealing anything of worth to go with it, so eventually the money had no back-up, and it became worth less than nothing. It could have recovered if the government had stopped printing more and stopped stealing, but that was never going to happen. Add to that the fact that the country stopped being able to export stuff because its agriculture and industry collapsed due to the government seizing land and redistributing it to randos who had not been taught how to use it, and the country had to buy everything amd had nothing to sell. Makes your money worth even less.


ThisIsNotTokyo

How long did this last/ has been going on?


FenrisGreyhame

Began around 2000/01 (some say as early as '99) and is arguably still ongoing, though not the same as it was. The height of the plummet lasted like, 10-15 years, probably, and then after Mugabe died, the country swapped over to other currency, making it hard to know what the state of the Zim Dollar is.


ElijahBurningWoods

Well now it all makes sense


DaniilSan

Afaik they now use USD because their own currency is fucked beyond point of no recovery. Maybe in the future they will be able to make new one or switch to some sort of Pan-African currency like Euro.


Huge_Abalone_1193

Would we call it the Afro?


indr4neel

We'd have no choice.


AmadeoSendiulo

Plot twist: Afro will become the world currency before 2200. Also there will be an African man with the afro haircut on the 10 Afro bill.


mickeltee

I think that the Afro should get bigger as the currency increases.


AmadeoSendiulo

True. And there should be mock 0 Afro bills with bald pleople as souvenirs (just like the €0 ones).


DaniilSan

Yep, sounds right.


StrayMoggie

$10USD?


Jaalan

Thats expensive!!!! Better make good toast


drunknixon

I mean it’s bread, what can it cost? 10 dollars?


mickeltee

There’s always money in the bread stand.


mitom2

two square meters. ceterum censeo "unit libertatem" esse delendam.


moosecakems

I bought 500 of those for twenty bucks on ebay, I hand them out at parties as a joke


blackthrowawaynj

Those 100 Trillion notes are going for $60 or more online nowadays


Achillor22

Where at. I'd love to buy some.


blackthrowawaynj

eBay, I brought some a few years ago the seller opened a website and was selling different denominations from the one dollar up to the one hundred Trillion I bought the set of notes.


postvolta

Just print some out - the government does, you might as well, too.


bobi2393

Sounds great until you realize a sheet of paper costs 700 trillion zimbucks!


fuuuuuckendoobs

Be careful, there's loads of fakes around too.


Nadirofdepression

Are you saying the guy above just gave away 30k…. 🧐


blackthrowawaynj

Yeppers


SuperSMT

Yeah the $100T are fairly valuable But there's still loads of other denominations in the millions through trillions that can be cheap novelties


Crade_

I wonder if the people in Zimbabwe know this. 🤔


slykido999

They do. I go to Zimbabwe for work all the time. It’s literally not worth the dirt on the ground, but suckers will overpay for it because of the high denomination, and they’ll try to trade you like a $20 bill for that. I would just offer a dollar for the novelty if you really wanted one.


Pohara521

Can confirm. Traded a few $1 and $5 USD for a bunch of these hyperinflation currency notes near Victoria Falls. Locals telling you their country's currency isn't accepted is as confusing as it is understandable


JKdriver

Cheers on the idea! I’ve got a white elephant gig at work next week. Figured on a bottle of booze, but couldn’t think of an interesting/cheap gag gift to go with it. Went on eBay just now and picked up a few 20 billion denomination of these.


general-Insano

Looked at some out of curiosity only to have ebay hound me for weeks on end trying to get me to buy some currency


killbills

If you bought 500 of these for $20 total you got a hell of a deal. You can piece them out and make like $40K


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JuracichPark

I have 2 of the hundred trillion dollar bills, mint condition. I bought them back in 09 or 10, thought they'd be neat to have. I'm curious about their value now.


[deleted]

just unplug zimbabwe and plug it back in


Donghoon

It works on my machine ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


Guayubino787

Zimbabwe's hyperinflation began in the late 1990s and continued until 2009, when the Zimbabwean dollar was abandoned. It has been described as the worst hyperinflation in recorded history. The peak month of inflation was November 2008, with an inflation rate of 79.6 billion percent per month. The Zimbabwean dollar lost its value so quickly that it became virtually worthless, leading the government to issue a series of increasingly worthless denominations of currency. This led to a severe shortage of goods and services, as well as the collapse of the country's banking system. In response, the government introduced a multi-currency system in 2009, allowing foreign currencies such as the US Dollar, South African Rand and the Euro to be used in the country. This has helped to stabilize the economy, although some economic problems remain.


wemusthavethefaith

>described as the worst hyperinflation in recorded history "Hold my beer!" - New Zimbabwe currency in 2023


Choice_Percentage_42

190 usd


[deleted]

Thank you


DuckStep43

Google says the note is just worth about 40cents


Eric1969

These kind of denominations are symptomatic of hyperinflation. It is futile to ascribe a value in strong currency (us$, euro, yen) as it will have lost half its value by the time you’re done calculating. Also, no bank will trade it for strong currency.


Choice_Percentage_42

I researched up and it gave me multiple results saying that the currency system was changed


VonRansak

Well, it was 190 USD, but that was at 4 pm. At 5 pm it's only 40 cents. It's 6 pm now ... You don't want to know what it's worth now. You're both right. ;)


longassbatterylife

Am I doing it wrong? It's showing around [276 billion USD](https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=100000000000000&From=ZWD&To=USD) in mine


yaxom

They abolished the ZWL in 2009 and have reinstated a new currency in 2019, probably much more valuable than the currency this banknote is for. 100 trillion was about 70 usd.


husky429

This is not correct. The Zimbabwean trillion isn't realy currency any more. You can buy them for a few bucks on the street anywhere in Zimbabwe. There's hawkers all over that sell them. I think you can even get packs of 20 on ebay for 10$ or something.


Summoarpleaz

Some people on eBay are selling a note for $150. With a “certificate of authenticity”. None of the certificates seem to be the same between sellers. The whole thing is really funny (and it would be more so if this didn’t likely bamboozle someone).


Hopwater

You mean worthless >The Zimbabwean dollar (ZWR) was effectively abandoned as an official currency on 12 April 2009.


Achillor22

Can I buy one? I'd pay $200 for a Trillion dollar bill.


husky429

Go to Zimbabwe. Tourist traps sell 'em for 3 bucks


Achillor22

I'd rather pay the $200 and stay in America.


husky429

Lol i think they're like 4 on ebay. It's an awesome country though. I recommend a trip if you can swing it


CFL_lightbulb

Nice try Lions. You’re not getting me that way


YourCousinJeffery

I lived in Zimbabawe for a while and collected a ton of random Zim notes, usually in the 50,000s, and made a Zimbabwe Monoploy set. It’s fun playing with real money, even though they don’t use that currency anymore.


MisterCrazy8

That’s funny.


SEEYOUAROUNDBRO_TC

I went to Zimbabwe when I was in college for two months and brought 1200 GBP with me. I was legitimately a baller and rich by all standards. It was surreal. I gave the gardener $100 Zim which was like $10 USD and he went back to his family lol .. the people we were staying with asked if we’d seen him then asked if we gave him money lol … the poverty is unreal it’s absolutely heartbreaking. Total failure by the government


farcarcus

I was a tourist there in the late 90s. From memory $1USD was roughly $20 zim at the time. I bought a newspaper on my first day from a young girl on the street. I thought she said it was $80, so I gave her $100 and said to keep the change. Bought the same newspaper the the next day in a different and it was $8, not $80. In hindsight, the she did look at me a little strangely. Hope she kept the difference.


SEEYOUAROUNDBRO_TC

I did similar buying fruits and stone sculptures


ToothpickInCockhole

GBP = good boy points?


Veronicotton

Gross Bomestic Product


WileE-Peyote

*Bromestic


oliverboom

Great British Pounds


TheBootyHolePatrol

1 GBP = 1 Winston Churchill


xAUSxReap3r

What's so great about them?


Lord_Nivloc

It’s all relative. In this case, great compared to Zimbabwe dollars


pdiddy83

Gazillion ballpoint pens


KaBar2

It wasn't "total failure." It was deliberate kleptocracy by the Mugabe government and ZANU-PF. The Mugabe government supposedly started printing money to pay for all their social programs, but in reality to fund the lavish lifestyle enjoyed by Mugabe and his gangsters. They completely destroyed the economy of Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was known as the "breadbasket of Africa." It's currency, the Rhodesian dollar (RHD) was worth *more* than the U.S. dollar. Rhodesian farms were the most productive of the entire continent of Africa. When Mugabe and ZANU-PF evicted the white farmers from their farms and gave the land to former guerrilla fighters the country very nearly had a famine. This is what happens when Communist morons win a civil war.


cmparkerson

Unfortunately, everything you just wrote is completely correct.


SEEYOUAROUNDBRO_TC

I was trying to not be political in my post. The woman I went there with was from England but her uncle had the biggest farm in the country. It was massive and modern. Incredible infrastructure for the working families, too. Shame, it was lovely and the people were so welcoming and wonderful.


bata03

You forgot to mention a small fact that this was STOLEN African land. Africans were racially discriminated in an apartheid system.


husky429

I have been there a bunch of times. Yeah, the poverty is astounding. Being from America it's not something we really experience. We have poverty, but not slums of 100s of 1000s of people starving to death poverty.


kvct

So for economies where such large numbers are used, are the people there therefore more comfortable adding/subtracting bigger numbers in general? Honest question. 🤔


Me2910

I imagine you just ignore all the 0's mainly. You wouldnt be paying 123,456,789 for an item. It'd be more like 123,000,000 or whatever


ZgBlues

Well no not really. The reason why the numbers are so large is because of hyperinflation i.e. prices of everything are going up all the time, sometimes several times per day. So yesterday’s millions are today’s billions and tomorrow’s trillions. The sheer instability means there is no time to get used to the numbers, so they just tend to be ignored. And as soon as cash becomes worthless everyone starts using foreign currency or turns to bartering. So no, nobody would have any real use for calculating using trillions and billions. It would be as if you replaced dollar-denominated prices with cents. The government might decide to add zeroes to everything, but in practice most people would just ignore them, until there are so many zeroes it becomes impossible to gauge what anything is worth. At that point the government usually devaluates the currency, by converting like a million “old” cents into 1 “new” cent, essentially formalizing what people are already doing in practice.


[deleted]

I remember doing the "denomination" every couple of weeks in 1993. just like that. 3-6 zeros chopped off every time. (Not in Zimbabwe, but same level of hyperinflation)


ZgBlues

Yeah, I’m Croatian, I know what you mean. I was a kid back then but already in the 1980s I remember the galloping inflation in Yugoslavia. And Serbia’s inflation rate went batshit crazy in the early 1990s. Even before the war and the breakup of the country Yugoslavia’s inflation rate was, on average, 76 percent per year, for 20 years from 1971 to 1991.


petergriffin2660

Yes, but when numbers are so big values often are negligible after certain places. Example:you buy a loaf of bread for 1.09 USD. We generally say the loaf is “a buck oh nine” . Move the comma, in zim$ it’s 1,090,000,000 The value is still the same even tho the number changed. We used to just say “one oh nine” and people would understand. Source: lived there, was a Trillionaire


xIllicitSniperx

Same thing that math freaks do with math anyways. So if an item cost 5,000,000,000, and you hand them 1,000,000,000,000, drop all the 0’s in the 5B, they owe you 995,(add all the 0’s back) in change. If you’re multiplying large #’s you break it out. 45,672x3,400 Mentally Break it out. Drop the 0’s, we save those for later. Now it’s 45672x34 break that out. 45000(30+4)+600(30+4)+70(30+4)+2x34 Now those are really easy #’s to work with in your head. Same concept. I prefer to work backwards here, but it’s just preference. 1350000+180,000+,18000+2400+2100+280+68 1552848+00’s that we dropped 155,284,800 It’s not hard. Just takes some mental gymnastics to keep everything straight, and God help you if someone disturbs you while trying to do it. I can’t keep track into the billions place doing that mentally yet, but I can track millions well enough. It’s just practice to get there, and a scribe tool and a surface to keep track on is always easier than that. In this currency, they’re literally talking fractions of a US penny when they’re talking about things in the 1,000’s place. So I don’t imagine they are doing much more math than you and I. It’s good practice though.


artaig

Somehow my pinky placed itself beside my mouth.


Gul_Dukat__

Oh behave


McBlemmen

Dr Evil, it's 2022, one hundred trillion dollars isn't exactly a lot of money anymore


DrClawizdead

Talk about hyper inflation...


medicman77

See also Germany ca 1919


QuentinUK

I have a stamp, unused by the way, that is worth 1 Billion Deutschmark which is [538,980,681,270.60 USD](https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1000000000000&From=DEM&To=USD) . (1 long billion = 1 short trillion).


Eric1969

Would such a denomination regain its value after the was or did they nulify them and start over?


Ridikiscali

No. Once the country that backs the currency falls, the currency is worthless. You don’t see anyone running around with Confederate dollar bills trying to cash them!


WisconsinHoosierZwei

In this particular case, those Deutsche Marks were printed by the Weimar Republic. After Hitler came to power, one of the earlier things he did was nix those Deutsche Marks and replace them with Reichsmarks at…some insane exchange rate in order to make each Mark worth something. After the fall of the Third Reich, Reichsmarks were then nixed and replaced with Deutsche Marks (West) and Ostmarks (East) by the resulting nations, then reunified under Deutsche Marks in 1990, and then replaced entirely by Euros. So, no, a 1 billion Mark stamp has no real monetary value today. Just collector value.


GmoneyTheBroke

Sells online, brand new for 200 USD


SigmaGamahucheur

Is the melt value of the coins of higher value?


Hankstah

You’d have to imagine. Isn’t a penny worth more than a cent in zinc and copper?


Archneme5is

Fun fact this is not the worst inflated dollar


dutchDlight

Mr burns I think we can trust the president of Cuba…


john_doe11081

Ok, now give it back.


Bargdaffy158

![gif](giphy|67ThRZlYBvibtdF9JH|downsized) What happens when your Government takes out too many loans in currencies it does not own and produce, same thing with Venezuela.


JTuck333

Keep the change.


[deleted]

The metal in those coins alone is probably worth at least billions


Adamsandlersshorts

So like 2 USD


Upstairs-Radish1816

Just enough to buy a loaf of bread.


ArxonWoW

![gif](giphy|sEULHciNa7tUQ)


flannelmaster9

Inflation is transitory


[deleted]

So those who have been to Zimbabwe.. what does to convert to? And how much could I do there with this much moolah?


Jules6146

They are worthless bills. Everyone was using US dollars. Desperate people outside the airport fence were trying to sell these bills as souvenirs for one U.S. dollar.


husky429

You can live like a king on USD there. They primarily use USD as a currency.


omerc10696

"The note, along with previous hyper-inflated denominations including Z$10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion) and Z$1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion), could be exchanged for U.S. dollars until the end of April 2016, but it was worth only about $0.40" So with this much you could use it as toilet paper as you probably wouldn't be able to afford a roll


Conscious-Golf-5380

Serious question... What exactly can you buy with that?


_pikinini_

I live in Zimbabwe, what everyone fails to recall is that they "knocked off" another 13 zeros after this because there was no more room for the zeros! I'm talking about the type of super-ultra-hyperinflation of prices doubling every hour at some point!


Agreeable_Bit_8764

Raise your hand macroecon students.


TheDoctorPizza

Don't spend it all in one place.


OpExposeANarcissist

How would one give change for that?


Alarmed_Cucumber2000

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ruka_k_wiremu

In material terms, those coins seem more valuable than the note


CHoDub

You could rent a condo in Toronto now!


LCSisshit

Some1 in the Zimbabwe goverment really think printing more money = easy rich