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Who wants to be a Trillionnaire?
Apr. 20th, 2010 08:46 amA couple of years ago, I decided I rather fancied being a millionnaire and so I hopped onto eBay and bought myself a Zimbabwean five hundred million dollar bill. The only problem with being a millionnaire these days is that they're ten a penny -it seems everyone you meet at the bus stop is a billionnaire, and my five hundred million just doesn't cut it any more.
So there was only one thing to do. Go back to ebay and buy myself an even more ridiculously worthless bit of currency.
The Zimbabwean dollar, in case you weren't aware, is now the most worthless currency ever to exist. It's not even worth my time typing the zeroes on the exchange rate to illustrate that. Instead, I'll just point out that a single Zimbabwean dollar wouldn't buy you a pebble, or a short bit of stick.
I think the most charming thing about this banknote is that despite it being the most overvalued piece of paper ever (with the possible exception of the one Hitler gave Neville Chamberlain) the Zimbabwean mint has still tried to make it difficult to reproduce. They've put on the wavy lines and varied colours to reduce the chance of people photcopying it. I mean, what's the point? It'll buy you two loaves of bread today and one tomorrow. By the time you've turned on your scanner and let the bulb warm up your paper currency will have halved in value.
The only possible thing to do with currency like this is to get yourself a grain silo filled with it and go swimming, like Scrooge McDuck. If that's not an ambition, I don't know what is.
So there was only one thing to do. Go back to ebay and buy myself an even more ridiculously worthless bit of currency.
The Zimbabwean dollar, in case you weren't aware, is now the most worthless currency ever to exist. It's not even worth my time typing the zeroes on the exchange rate to illustrate that. Instead, I'll just point out that a single Zimbabwean dollar wouldn't buy you a pebble, or a short bit of stick.
I think the most charming thing about this banknote is that despite it being the most overvalued piece of paper ever (with the possible exception of the one Hitler gave Neville Chamberlain) the Zimbabwean mint has still tried to make it difficult to reproduce. They've put on the wavy lines and varied colours to reduce the chance of people photcopying it. I mean, what's the point? It'll buy you two loaves of bread today and one tomorrow. By the time you've turned on your scanner and let the bulb warm up your paper currency will have halved in value.
The only possible thing to do with currency like this is to get yourself a grain silo filled with it and go swimming, like Scrooge McDuck. If that's not an ambition, I don't know what is.
