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I actually bought a souvenir Zimbabwe note of a giant denominator years ago. I'll have to dig it out and post a photo.
That’s pretty cool. Is it a million or something?
I have some random bank notes I have collected over the years. My favourite is an Iraqi Dinar.. very smug Saddam Hussein looking like he has snuck one out while his portrait was being finished..
Looks like @0xbitcoiner posted his first. I can't remember the amount.
Probably too large a number to comprehend.. it’s the poorest people who suffer run away inflation..
I'm afraid many other countries will be experiencing a similar disaster soon.
Wow. Is that more than a gazzilion?
🤔 I had no idea what 'gazzillion' meant, so I had to look it up.
gazillion, number, informal
UK /ɡəˈzɪl.jən/ US /ɡəˈzɪl.jən/
a very large, but not an exact, number:
- If you look online, you’ll find a gazillion recipes for chicken.
- He has sold a gazillion records and won enough awards to fill a museum.
- I'll be watching the Super Bowl tonight, just like gazillions of other Americans.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pt/dicionario/ingles/gazillion
Yeah - it was a joke on my part but a great word to have at your disposal.
They used to joke and say you needed a wheelbarrow to transport your money when you went to buy bread.. not sure they were joking at all.
like this ?
Trust @0xbitcoiner to have a photo/meme/gif for the occasion…
They used to joke and say you needed a wheelbarrow to transport your money when you went to buy bread.. not sure they were joking at all.
And if you left the bundles of money in the wheelbarrow for a while, you found out that the money got discarded and your wheelbarrow stolen. The wheelbarrow was far more valuable. :-)
The battle of real value vs State mandated value right there…
I don't know much about Zimbabwe, but I do know that in 2008 a loaf of bread cost 10 million Zimbabwean dollars. That's insane! Can you imagine why?
In Zimbabwe, bread costs Z$10 million
With inflation at 100,000 percent, few can afford even basic goods.https://m.stacker.news/33214 https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2008/0325/p06s02-woaf.html