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   bank      central      currency      economy      hyperinflation      item      large      local      more      note      old      plus      quadrillion      rate      security      tourists      until      waste      worth      worthless  
Zimbabwe's bank scrapped the country's to use the U.S. dollar. The Zimbabwean dollar became because of . This peaked at 500 billion per cent in 2008. Since then, Zimbabweans liked the of the U.S. dollar. Around 90 per cent of the uses the U.S. dollar. People have September to change their currency. The exchange is one U.S. dollar to 35 Zimbabwean dollars.

Zimbabwe's old dollar will not disappear. The number of zeroes on the bills is making them a collector's . A 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar is selling online for US$35. This is over one hundred times than the 40 U.S. cents the bill is . One hundred trillion is one 14 zeroes. One Zimbabwean is making money from the currency by selling it to . He said it was a of time to cash it in at a .

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