New Note from Africa

By Thursday October 22, 2009

Can someone try to get me one of these? I think they are worth $5 or so and expire. This one belongs to Adam Curry and he gloats about it.



26 Comments
  1. poindexter says:
    10/22/2009 at 1:14 pm

    I have had one of these for a while now. It makes for a great bookmark. I got mine in a set of about 5 Zimbabwean bills from 10 – 100 trillion. Purchased the set on eBay for $20.

  2. igeek says:
    10/22/2009 at 1:22 pm

    Well the current rate that may soon be bested by the US dollar.

  3. SparkyOne says:
    10/22/2009 at 1:27 pm

    For 100 trillion I would have expected the art work to be a bit better.

  4. OmegaMan says:
    10/22/2009 at 1:31 pm

    Thanks John! Got mine for $2 free shipping on ebay. Maybe I can no pay that Nigerian Prince to leverage open that oil account and gain me even more money! Bwwhahahahaha

  5. Skippy says:
    10/22/2009 at 1:41 pm

    Is that the Rock Band videogame font?

  6. Dallas says:
    10/22/2009 at 1:49 pm

  7. Improbus says:
    10/22/2009 at 1:54 pm

    I keep seeing Doctor Evil saying: “One Hundred Trillion Dollars!”

  8. Angel H. Wong says:
    10/22/2009 at 2:24 pm

    I didn’t knew Zimbabwe had George W. Bush’s portrait on their One Hundred Trillion Dollars.

  9. Zybch says:
    10/22/2009 at 2:36 pm

    I got a couple of these recently, and also their 1c note to bookend the failed currency.
    I’d send you one John, but by the time it takes to cross the globe I’m sure you’d already have got one from someone else.

  10. B.Dog says:
    10/22/2009 at 4:11 pm

    They’re $2.95 /w free shipping right now on ebay.

    Are those rocks their parliament building?

  11. Cap'nKangaroo says:
    10/22/2009 at 4:36 pm

    Are those rocks or a pile of dog pooh?

  12. steve says:
    10/22/2009 at 6:25 pm

    bought a bunch on ebay for 20 dollars uncirculated mint condition 10-20-50-100 trillion awesome to have fun for jokes especially in todays economic climate love them try ebay john

  13. c_starfish3 says:
    10/22/2009 at 7:23 pm

    i got one from e-bay. it was like $10 including the shipping from South Africa.

  14. Smart Ass says:
    10/22/2009 at 8:34 pm

    Does anyone know if this is available on eBay?

  15. deowll says:
    10/22/2009 at 10:07 pm

    Wait a few years. At the rate we are going you may well be able to get one in US currency and still not have enough money to buy a cup of coffee.

    Did you know that every American now owes over $300,000? Your share of what the US government has borrowed and it’s growing fast.

  16. LibertyLover says:
    10/23/2009 at 12:22 am

    #8, You’re being too kind. There is more than one rock in the picture.

  17. Mr Diesel says:
    10/23/2009 at 1:19 am

    If this Congress and President keep spending like an aircraft carrier full of drunken sailors you won’t be able to buy a cup of coffee with a wheelbarrow full of US notes in this denomination.

    Hope and Change (for a 100 trillion note)

    Thanks Obomba

  18. Rich says:
    10/23/2009 at 4:42 am

    Well, he USED to have a pocketful of them, but he used them up…one by one.

  19. Misanthropic Scott says:
    10/23/2009 at 5:51 am

    If that’s only $5, I’d expect a 5×10^14, a 1×10^15 and even possibly a 2×10^15 note. The last would be equivalent to a C note here.

    I don’t imagine I’ll be going through Zimbabwe again anytime soon. It was a lot more stable when I went through, with a stop at Vic Falls, on my way to Botswana in 1998.

  20. Winston says:
    10/23/2009 at 6:14 am

    “I didn’t knew Zimbabwe had George W. Bush’s portrait on their One Hundred Trillion Dollars.”

    Dumb as a pile of rocks. That’s great!

  21. wirelessg says:
    10/23/2009 at 7:29 am

    Zimbabweopoly money?

  22. Johnny Platypus says:
    10/23/2009 at 7:46 am

    These were also offered for sale at a recent (Sept) Long Beach, California coin show. The dealer had multiple bundles of 100 notes offered wholesale to other dealers for $125 per bundle. The notes, unlike earlier Zimbabwe “dollars,” have no expiration date on them. They came out in the last half of ’08 with a local exchange value of approx. US$80, or so I have been told. The value went to zero within weeks. Now they are shipped over here for what they’ll bring as novelties. Consider them as historic reminders of the vast devastation and suffering caused by government-organized theft of wealth from its populace.

  23. Russ says:
    10/23/2009 at 10:08 am

    You can get the set of 4 notes: 10 trillion – 100 trillion from here for $38:
    http://www.eurocollections.com/store/product.asp?id=5107

  24. Martin says:
    10/23/2009 at 6:21 pm

    I think the reason the bill shows a pile of rocks is because it reflects the fact that their economy has hit “rock bottom”.

  25. Jägermeister says:
    10/23/2009 at 7:37 pm

    Perhaps Arnold should buy one and bail out California?

  26. ZARk says:
    10/24/2009 at 2:37 am

    aren’t those the OLD notes ?
    the ones for 2008

    think this year they said 1 Trillion $ = 1 $


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