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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (24)	3/17/2025 10:16:19 PM
From: nicewatch	Read Replies (1) of 563

The big boy note is shown below, although unclear it ever officially circulated it did unofficially but by that point the situation was so chaotic they'd moved to de facto US dollarization and am sure they also happily traded in Euros, British Pounds, South African Rand, or any relatively hard currency at that stage! -yikes- Wasn't savvy enough to buy those notes at the unofficial low of $2-3usd but by $10 was buying as many as I could that didn't seem obvious fakes. Upwards of 100 total and handed out dozens as gifts, they make for great conversation pieces. Then a year later started buying a few highly graded notes. Maybe I should offer an ungraded note from my stash as a prize? :-) They are lower serial numbers. The story goes they were printing so fast the ink wells would run dry and no longer were always including the ribbon stamp, not to mention they may have kept printing them and kept in a warehouse somewhere, possibly to this day. That's where the grading adds value. Still a fun ROI even factoring in the dozens given away as gifts.

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