$ Zimbabwe Currency - Specifically the hyperinflated discontinued ones.

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Alex Hogendorp

Alex Hogendorp

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Explain how your broke ass can no long afford the 100 Trillion Dollar bill like you could in the good old days due to inflation.

There has been talks and forecasts about Zimbabwe Currency skyrocketing in price which led to many investments in it. Most bank notes have at least 10 million of them printed but compared to the world's population, it isn't a lot. Most notably the 100 trillion dollar bill is getting harder to put your hands on as listing go beyond a hundred dollars.
 
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I bought 5 100 trillion dollar bills 10-11 years ago for $16.98 for all 5 together, shipping included off eBay. I know the exact amount because I can see it in my feedback history where the seller gave me a 5 star rating but it just says "more than a year ago" in that tab and apparently eBay doesn't save your purchase history for more than a few years, but I know for a fact it was no later than 2013. I gave one away as a gift many years ago but kept the other four. Let's see what they're worth now...
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And yes, people are paying that price (and more, apparently) for just one now.
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I'm going to keep holding though. It fits nicely in my collection with my Republika Srpska and RSK money.
 
I have a friend that is a teacher that uses them with elementary school kids to teach them large numbers. It's apparently a rather effective teaching tool.
 
wow i could paddle boat from Mozambique, walk through the border into Zimbabwe, and still have 5 dollars to take over a country corrupted by the literal equivalent of hood niggers by African standards.
 
Banknotes are like any other collectible, the ones that look interesting or have a cool story attached will always be worth more. No one gives a fuck about a Hungarian 500 forint note from 2002, but the Zimbabwe hyperinflation crisis is famous, and a note with such an eye-popping face value is guaranteed to be snapped up by collectors, normies, and the speculators who rip them off regardless of what the exchange value was when the government of Zimbabwe dollarized.

I have a few hundred billion myself, they are a great way to introduce young spergs to currency collecting since even the smaller denominations, which can be bought in bulk, are stunning.
 
This goes for 10 dollars.
www.banknoteworld.org

Hungary 100 Million B. Pengo, 1946, P-136

Hungary 100 Million B. Pengo, 1946, P-136
www.banknoteworld.org www.banknoteworld.org

www.banknoteworld.com

Hungary 100 Million B.- Pengo Banknote, 1946, P-136, UNC, TAP 60-70 Authenticated

Hungary 100 Million B.- Pengo Banknote, 1946, P-136, UNC, TAP 60-70 Authenticated
www.banknoteworld.com www.banknoteworld.com
But this site says its 1500 dollars.

100 million billiard zingers. That's 100 quintillion in American measurements.

Get cucked nignogs, Hungary inflation is stronkest!

As to what causes such inflation, the answer is communism. The forint was converted with a value of 200 octillion pengos.
 
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Male Idiot said:
This goes for 10 dollars.
www.banknoteworld.org

Hungary 100 Million B. Pengo, 1946, P-136

Hungary 100 Million B. Pengo, 1946, P-136
www.banknoteworld.org www.banknoteworld.org

100 million billiard zingers. That's 100 quintillion in American measurements.

Get cucked nignogs, Hungary inflation is stronkest!
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What holds that back from being more valuable:

1) What is that gibberish writing? Is this even money? I don't see any numbers.
2) Where is Magyar? I've never heard of that country, but it looks European and therefore not exotic.
3) Boring design. There are countless European banknotes out there with a woman on one side and some old castle on the other. How am I supposed to impress anyone with that?

Same principle as flint arrowheads from 10,000 years ago being lame and gay, but an iron arrowhead from 1488 going in a display case.
 
1: They would have needed more paper for all the zeroes. It was shorter to write it out and less confusing. 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 is a lot of zeroes.
2: Central-east europe, yeah its not new nor niggly. The exotic part is the sheer denomination size.
3: Oh I agree, the front part of it is definately not that good. These bills were useless in a week, so they were often re-used, and re-used the cheapest design a commie could come up with.

One site does sell it for 1500 dollars, another for 350. I guess it depends on how mint it is. I made an error, the 10 dollars was the 1961 value.

The castle is the parliamentary building, which is one of the most ornate baroque things ever made and filled with gold, gems and statues, and the third largest of its kind, only beaten by the Pentagon and the Romanian one in sheer size, but not in bling. The rendition here however is very, very poor. Again commie quality. I'm surprised they didn't just put in the Red Square to be honest.
The commies weren't trying hard with this one, they would just take it back a week later and replace the "million" with "billion" and call it a day.

Though, if we look at things from a banker's perspective, the Swiss Frank is by far demolishing all other currencies in its qualities. It is tough, almost unfakable and uses very advanced polymer-paper mix. Euros, dollars, all can be counterfeited, but not the mountain jew shekels.
 
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1: They would have needed more paper for all the zeroes. It was shorter to write it out and less confusing. 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 is a lot of zeroes.
2: Central-east europe, yeah its not new nor niggly. The exotic part is the sheer denomination size.
3: Oh I agree, the front part of it is definately not that good. These bills were useless in a week, so they were often re-used, and re-used the cheapest design a commie could come up with.

One site does sell it for 1500 dollars, another for 350. I guess it depends on how mint it is. I made an error, the 10 dollars was the 1961 value.

The castle is the parliamentary building, which is one of the most ornate baroque things ever made and filled with gold, gems and statues, and the third largest of its kind, only beaten by the Pentagon and the Romanian one in sheer size, but not in bling. The rendition here however is very, very poor. Again commie quality. I'm surprised they didn't just put in the Red Square to be honest.
The commies weren't trying hard with this one, they would just take it back a week later and replace the "million" with "billion" and call it a day.

Though, if we look at things from a banker's perspective, the Swiss Frank is by far demolishing all other currencies in its qualities. It is tough, almost unfakable and uses very advanced polymer-paper mix. Euros, dollars, all can be counterfeited, but not the mountain jew shekels.
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I didn't mean to give the impression that that's my opinion, I was just trying to illustrate what the thought process of a potential buyer might be. That said, the note really is aesthetically boring. I love crisis currency, but I'd trade that for handmade Philippine guerrilla pesos or the scrip issued by Argentine state banks in 2000 without hesitating.

The Brazilians were also lazy about updating their designs. They had to replace their currency so often in the 80s that they couldn't send out new notes soon enough to meet the country's immediate needs and the national mint had to use stamps to revalue the old notes.
 
Brazil had a lot of high denomination noted during the big late 80's and early 90's inflation but they never got to funny numbers like billion because the government would try and "solve" the problem by declaring a currency exchange, printing new money with a new design and name, and cutting the zeros out. They would then proceed to just over print it anyway and repeat the process once 500 thousand notes were common at which point, repeat. Wasn't until the Real Plan that it got fixed. Though with the commie boomer back in control we might see funny money again.

I own a bunch of it. A relative had a coin and money collection hobby so he kept some of them around. Fun to look at and they sorta reflect the type of "mood" the government was going for and trying to push too. The early Cruzeiros from Vargas are so thick with USA LARP they were literally designed by the people who made the US Dollar and you might mistake them it from a distance, even more so than the Réis notes from before (which still looked like Dollars but not so violently), then they swapped it for New Cruzeiros and back to Cruzeiros (but a different Cruzeiros, yes really) over the 1967 to 1970. These ones had a design that was a lot funkier and suitably 70's. It lasted till 1986, at which point Brazil went FULL RETARD and speedran money changing swapping currency 4 times before finally calming the fuck down with the Real in 1994.

Gotta say, the Real has a pretty good design. Both the new and the orginal ones from the first design from 1994. You can check out what all of these looked like on the Brazilian Rothschild Branch Website though some are missing because though they were legal tender they were not actually printed in Brazil so they technically aren't Central Bank property.
 
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