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05/07/2008 | Location: Belgrade, Serbia
For a few hundred dinars (about $4), you can purchase an old 500,000,000,000 note from the former Yugoslavia. When Yugoslavia was splitting during the early 1990s, inflation forced the government to print larger and larger denominations of currency each day. Their currency was losing value so fast, our host explained, that in mere hours it would become worthless pieces of paper.
(Photo by Thushan Amarasiriwardena, caption by Brian Rogers / LongJaunt.com)
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