The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today

Re:The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of go... by MerelyMortal on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:58PM (#31063889)

Did they at least give it back to you?

I don't know how much they sell for now, but I was lucky to get one for $20 when they were normally going for $40 on eBay.

I forgot the exact result, but I once calculated the value of a 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill when it was printed, and it came to something like 0.06 USD (6 cents).

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Re:The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of go... by Jiro on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:27PM (#31064654)

I just checked ebay. Real ones sell for $100-200 US.

There are also fakes, most of which admit in the description that they are fakes, and include extremely large numbers like 10^33.

The highest number that you can get cheaply and that is not fake seems to be the 50 billion. They sell for about five dollars, which given the economics of ebay is probably as low as you can expect.

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Re:The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of go... by bombcar on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:55PM (#31064845)

The one trillion ones are more rare, as Germany if I recall correctly stopped printing them for Zimbabwe soon afterwards.

At one point I had a hundred stack of them somewhere.

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Re:The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of go... by kingcharles on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:08AM (#31071712)

They didn't give it back. I'll have to give them a call. This was 8 years ago, but I know they still have it. I didn't know they'd gone up so much in value. I don't think I'd want to sell it though. I remember paying about $10 + shipping for it.

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