The "Zimdollar:" Dead, but still used for bus fare

Ap/YahooNews ^ | 8/16/09 | ANGUS SHAW

[Kartographer]

A woman pays her bus fare with 3 trillion in old Zimbabwe dollars — the equivalent of 50 U.S. cents. The collector accepts the brick of neatly folded bundles of a trillion each without bothering to count the notes.

[Kartographer]

Coming to a billfold near you!

[Bullish]

Can you actually count out 3 trillion dollars? I mean what denominations are we talking about here?

[count-your-change]

I can see the bus driver saying,
“1,2,3,4,.........2,999,999,999,999....it seems you’re short on the fare, let me count that again....1,2,3...”

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

I wonder if you can pay in pennies.

[dayglored]

> Can you actually count out 3 trillion dollars? I mean what denominations are we talking about here?

I think they printed a 500,000,000,000 (500 billion) note, so you'd only need six of those for 3 trillion.

They may have issued a one-trillion note, but I am not sure of that.

[Moose Burger]

“President Robert Mugabe has called for the return of the Zimdollar as legal tender, complaining that most Zimbabweans lack the hard currency needed to buy basic goods”

So Al Franken isn’t the only clown on a position of power...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Al Franken isn’t the only clown on a position of power.

One difference is that you can SURVIVE if you criticize Franken.

[rawcatslyentist]

It's actually more useful and valuable as TP!

We need to abandon the failed policies of the past, and embrace the new policies of Afrikkka. /socialist

[backhoe]

[jiggyboy]

[BlackVeil]

I wonder if you can pay in pennies.

Pennies in Zimbabwe are far more valuable than trillions and trillions in notes - because of their copper and nicol content. The metals are always worth something. At one time, in Thailand, lead pennies had to be withdrawn from circulation, because lead went up in price, and inflation had eroded their face value.