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MRubio

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2. I recall paying a guy cash for raw coffee beans and he........

Reply to demosincebirth (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 10:19 PM

Mar 2019

....literally left with a sack of bills. Must have weighed 40 kilos. And now that I mention it, with last year's bolivar fuerte, we used to weigh stacks of bills on an electronic scale instead of counting them. 110 grams for 100 bills.

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Year to year inflation in Venezuela stands at 2.3 million percent [View all] GatoGordo Mar 2019 OP

Reminds me of Germany after WW1. demosincebirth Mar 2019 #1

I recall paying a guy cash for raw coffee beans and he........ MRubio Mar 2019 #2

I remember reading, after WW1, some German people had to carry thier cash in wheelbarrels. demosincebirth Mar 2019 #3

Yeah, heard that story. MRubio Mar 2019 #4