Whilst trying to read on why the Naira is doing so poorly, I came across some really strange currencies.

I hope you find this informative

1. Zimbabwe dollars

Zimbabweans exchange bank accounts of up to 175 quadrillion (175,000,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwean dollars for five US dollars.

No, this is not a bank robbery. This man needs to carry this much cash to do grocery shopping.

A loaf of bread in August, 2006 cost Z$45,000 in Zimbabwe. Two years later in March, 2008, the same loaf of bread cost Z$10 million in Zimbabwe.

This Zimbabwean man carrying his pregnant wife to a nearby doctor’s office on a wheelbarrow full of cash for the consultation fee. Looks like true love to me.

2. Bottle caps

Umm Yes. In 2005, a brewery in Cameroon started printing prize offers under beer bottle caps to boost sales.

Competitors followed suit until eventually, for the price of one beer, you were almost guaranteed to win anything from another beer to a sports car. People then started using their bottle caps to pay their taxi fares. Taxi drivers used them to bribe the traffic police. Pretty soon they became a small part of the local economy.

3. The Quid

Scientists from the National Space Centre and the University of Leicester have designed the QUID, short for Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, to be used as a space-currency. We hear exchange rates are out-of-this-world.

4. Somalian coloured coins

Somalia has a tradition of producing colourful and oddly-shaped coins of all sorts, from guitars to animals, motorbikes and foreign flags.

Would you pay for one of these? Or is it silly money?

5. Zairean zaire
What do you do when the dictator of your country, whose face appears on all the banknotes, has been overthrown and driven to exile? Well, this was the dilemma that faced Zaire, the country now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1997.

After Joseph Mobutu’s totalitarian regime was overthrown, the country’s new government came up with an ingenious (but slapdash) solution – they simply cut Mobutu’s face out of all the notes, leaving nothing but a gaping hole when his head should be! Brilliant, eh?

Cut the face out and carry on. Job done.

For once I'm thankful that I am a Nigerian

hahahaha they had to save cost and save face

Zimbabweans exchange bank accounts of up to 175 quadrillion (175,000,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwean dollars for five US dollars.
Now this is very serious... Even with all the gold in Zimbabwe Now I know there is something wrong with we Africans, may God help us with leaders who think outside the box

Interesting. But the Zimbabwean dollars remains the most ridiculous for me.

Still waiting for what Buhari would do with our currency.
He hasn't thought about it yet, wait till he sees this post

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1. Zimbabwe dollars

Zimbabweans exchange bank accounts of up to 175 quadrillion (175,000,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwean dollars for five US dollars.

see the heavy rocks in thecurrency