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Old Dec 21, 2011 | 5:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Yaatri
You might want to go back to period after World War I, 1923. The exchange rate was 4.2trillion Marks to the US$. Not sure how much a trillion Marks bought you.
My son brought home a 100 Trillion Dollars Zimbabwe bank note...he paid someone one Canadian dollar for it. (I just googled them and many people are trying to sell them for under 5 bucks).

When I look at it, I always think of that Dr Evil laugh--one hundred trillion dollars !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zimbabwe_$100_trillion_2009_Obverse.jpg
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