Start at the top and work your way down
Zimbabwe cash:
One
200 000 dollar note equals less than US $0.10 cents.
Don't stop here--we're just getting warmed up!
December
22nd 2007, a new note of 500 000
dollars introduced to the market!
Next
- 750 000 dollars.
January 2008 - new note
of 10 million dollars.
This
US $10 dollar note is 10 times worth more than the 10 million dollars
Zimbabwe note.
A
case worth 65 billion Zimbabwe dollars which equals to $2000 US dollars.
This
guy is going to a supermarket. The exchange rate is 25 million Zimbabwe
dollars for 1 US dollar.
This
mountain of cash is worth $100.
50
Million note is then introduced!
Next
is 250 million dollars note!
Sorry,
how much is this t-shirt?
It ' s cheap,
only about 3 billion dollars!
May
- a note of 500 million dollars is introduced!
June
- note worth 25 and 50 billion are printed.
And
finally - 100 billion dollars note!
What
can you buy for it? Well, these 3 eggs for example.
That ' s how people
went to restaurants!
And
the bills:
In
August, the government devalued Zimbabwe dollar by removing 10 zeros from
notes.
However,
inflation kept going up and in September for this amount of cash you could
only buy 4 tomatoes.
And
for this - some bread.
And
then it started again: 20 000 dollars note in September.
50
000 a couple of weeks ago!
The 500 000 and 1,000,000 (new currency) notes have just been
released.
11
November 2008 courtesy www.zimbabwesituation.com
The country's currency plunged to a new record low on Monday, trading at an
average Z$28,4 quadrillion to the U.S. dollar and triggering massive
price
increases.The hyperinflation is now estimated at over a quintillion percent,
although
no one really knows.
All of which explains the attached pictures of the toilet
