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The bank of Zimbabwe scrapped the country's national on Friday and started using the U.S. dollar. The Zimbabwean dollar has for the decade become more and more because of spiralling inflation. Hyperinflation peaked at an 500 billion per cent in 2008. Since then, Zimbabweans began seeking financial in the U.S. dollar. Economists estimate that today, 90 per cent of the economy is based on the U.S. dollar. People have September to exchange their local currency for the U.S. dollar. The exchange rate is one U.S. dollar to 35 Zimbabwean dollars. That's 35 followed by 15 zeroes.

All is not for the old Zimbabwean dollar. The large of zeroes that make up denomination of the bills is making them a collector's online. On the auction site eBay, a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note is getting up to US$35 from . This is nearly one hundred times than the 40 U.S. cents the bill is officially worth in a bank. One hundred trillion is one followed by 14 zeroes. The 100 trillion dollar used to be able to buy a bus ticket. One enterprising Zimbabwean has decided to cash in on the old by selling it to tourists. Shadreck Gutuza, a former currency trader, said it was a waste of time to cash it in at the banks when tourists will buy the for US$20.

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