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Over 1.2 billion served

…that’s Zimbabwean dollars, I’m talking about.

For a dinner, two beers, and a mineral water.

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6 Responses to “Over 1.2 billion served”

  1. Jered Says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 11:06 am

    Note that receipt is from March… it’s a whole lot worse now.

    Zimbabwe, and Mugabe especially, are fascinating in a train-wreck sort of way. The level of absurdity has gone beyond anything I thought could exist outside of fiction.

  2. K. M. Hagen Says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    Yup. When a state’s banknotes have an expiry date printed on them, its monetary policy might need some tweaking.

  3. Noah D Says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 1:45 am

    [quote comment="170015"]it’s a whole lot worse now.[/quote]

    1.2 quadrillion for a laptop.

  4. HTRN Says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 7:37 am

    People are starting to collect the ludicrously high denominations of some Zimbabwean bills – who wouldn’t like a 50 million dollar bill? :)

  5. Noah D Says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 8:49 am

    I’ve got an old Weimar-era 5 million mark bill floating around my house somewhere. I think a 100 billion dollar Zimbabwean bill would be a nice complement.

  6. HTRN Says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    There’s a couple of 100 billion dollar notes on Ebay right now, some as low as 9 bucks.