# I'm rich, I'm rich!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rich-im-rich/537376>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 26, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rich-im-rich/537376 "2010-04-26T04:48:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rich-im-rich/537376/1 "2010-04-26T04:48:24Z")

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Woohoo! My son just gave me a legitimate Zimbabwe banknote in the amout of FIFTY TRILLION DOLLARS! This is not a scam. He gave it to me in person. I have it in my hand right now. I’m going to check the exchange rate to see how much it is worth in American Dollars.  
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Uh-oh:( …13 cents? Damn! Maybe I can sell it to Prince Randango in Nigeria for five bucks.

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**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rich-im-rich/537376/2 "2010-04-26T05:22:14Z")

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So, uh…how’d you get your name?  
And sorry 'bout that 50 gazillion. I guess the dollar’s down these days.

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**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rich-im-rich/537376/3 "2010-04-26T05:23:30Z")

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When did you check? It’s probably down to 8 cents by now.

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rich-im-rich/537376/4 "2010-04-26T11:09:50Z")

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I have some Zimbabwean **$1** coins from when I visited less than nine years ago. They used them as “chips” in the casino at Victoria Falls, but they were still worth about 1 US cent at the time - as I recall the exchange rate was about 100 to the dollar officially, or 180 unofficially.

I don’t think I brought back enough to change your $50,000,000,000,000 note though. ☹