Visitors Buy Zimbabwe's 100 Trillion-Dollar Notes

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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Western visitors to Zimbabwe are looking for zeros. They're snapping up old, defunct Zimbabwe bank notes, most notably the 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill, as an economic souvenir.

The 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill, which at 100 followed by 12 zeros is the highest denomination, now sells for $5, depending on its condition. That bill and others - among them millions, billions and trillions, were abandoned nearly two years ago, when the American dollar became legal tender in the hopes of killing off the record inflation that caused all those zeros.

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Visitors Buy Zimbabwe's 100 Trillion-Dollar Notes

"I had to have one," said Janice Waas on a visit to the northwestern resort town of Victoria Fal...

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