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The central bank of Zimbabwe the country's national currency on Friday and using the U.S. dollar. The Zimbabwean dollar for the past decade more and more worthless because of spiralling inflation. Hyperinflation at an incredible 500 billion per cent in 2008. Since then, Zimbabweans began financial security in the U.S. dollar. Economists that today, 90 per cent of the economy is based on the U.S. dollar. People have until September to their remaining local currency for the U.S. dollar. The official exchange rate one U.S. dollar to 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars. That's 35 by 15 zeroes.

All is not lost for the old Zimbabwean dollar. The large number of zeroes that make up each denomination of the bills is them a collector's item online. On the auction site eBay, a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note is up to US$35 from bidders. This nearly one hundred times more than the 40 U.S. cents the bill officially worth in a bank. One hundred trillion is one by 14 zeroes. The 100 trillion dollar bill used to able to a weekly bus ticket. One enterprising Zimbabwean has to cash in on the old currency by selling it to tourists. Shadreck Gutuza, a former currency trader, said it a waste of time to cash it in at the banks when tourists will the notes for US$20.

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