Buying hyperinflation bills

In My Humble Opinion
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As a “white elephant” prize for an upcoming board game day*, I’m thinking of awarding a hyperinflation note, like a Zimbabwe 50 Trillion Dollar Bill or Yugoslavian 50 Billion Dinar bill.

Some googling found some sites, but I’m wondering if anyone knows which are relaiable. I want the money to be REAL**, and theoretically tradable in for the exchange rate (even if if that is 1 cent), but will pay more than that to buy it (< $10)

Thanks
Brian

  • The theme being games where money is one way to get vicroty points. For Example: Brass, 7 Wonders, even Railways of the World (one of the Baron cards gives you VP if you are the richest)

** Since there is no Yugoslavia, not sure the exchageability of those dollars

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The Zimbabwe note would be your best choice. While it is technically exchangeable today, it isn’t in practicality.

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Some clarification on “real” - “technically tradable” is good enough.

Brian

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I’m not quite clear on the status of the Zimbabwe dollar. It was abandoned as the official currency in 2009, so I believe it is no longer available for exchange (except as a collectors item), but I’m not sure.

It seems the best bet may be the Vietnamese dong. (Good luck getting Somalian currency.)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_valued_currency_unit

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I would love a $100,000,000,000,000 zimbabwean dollar bill!!!

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I’ve got a few of the $100 trillion notes from ebay just as a novelty. They are worthless.

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I have some German hyperinflation money from the 1920’s. It’s kinda cool to see the same coin go from 50 pfennig, to 500 marks, to (Aluminum) 50 million marks.

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I wouldn’t mind buying some of these for my coin collection.