Zimbabweans will start exchanging ‘quadrillions’ of local dollars for a few US dollars next week, as the Zimbabwe government gets rid of its almost worthless national currency.
At the height of Zimbabwe’s economic crisis in 2008, Zimbabweans had to carry plastic bags bulging with bank notes to buy basic goods like bread and milk. Prices were rising at least twice a day.
The process will legally end the local currency. The people of Zimbabwe will have until September to turn in their old bank notes and exchange them for US dollars.
If a person has 175 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars in their bank account, they will be paid $5.
The largest bank note to be printed by the Zimbabwe government was worth 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. This was not even enough money to ride a public bus to work for a week!
The government said customers who still have piles of old Zimbabwean dollar notes can walk into any bank and get $1 for every $250 trillion they have. That means a person with a 100 trillion dollar bank note will receive 40 cents.
18 Responses
That isn’t even fair
werid
Rip off. he must try hard as to get that much money and in new zealand its proberly on worth $5 bux. but realy instresting
I did not know that Zimbabwean dollars are sort of worth less
Wow that is so cool!
i didn’t even know quadrillions were real!
that is absolutely ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is NOOOOOTTTTTTTfair!!!!!
That is really sad. 250 million is only 5$
That is so sad
why cant every country have the same amount as the others.
that is just so unfair
That isn’t fair!!
they would all have to be rich to give 250 TRILLION to the bank and get 1$ in American cause what if u wanted 10 American dollars that would be A LOT of Zimbabwean dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ):
Everybodys a billionare in zimbabawae
that’s just sad, they have worked hard to get that money and now only get $5 dollars for $250 trillion.
it is just not fair if you ask me
Thats not fair on them
that is so sad why will people do that it is soooooooo not fair people work so hard for that money
Thats alot of drillions