Marcus+Elaine's Travel Blog » Money Money Money http://www.mrcs1.com Marcus+Elaine's Travel Blog Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:46:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Who Wants To Be a Vietnamese Millionaire? http://www.mrcs1.com/2009/05/who-wants-to-be-a-vietnamese-millionaire/ http://www.mrcs1.com/2009/05/who-wants-to-be-a-vietnamese-millionaire/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 12:57:53 +0000 Marcus http://www.mrcs1.com/?p=365 800px-500000vtd
With his smiling, beatific face, looking like some kind of bastard love-child of Mr. Miyagi and Colonel Sanders, Ho Chi Minh graces the least valued currency in the world. At time of writing the Vietnamese đồng (VND) is worth about 0.0000421111 VND to the Euro, so 1,000,000 đồng is about €42. Although the Zimbabwean Dollar may have higher denominations of banknotes (the third issuing of the Zimbabwean Dollar had a denomination of Z$100,000,000,000,0000 [that's 100 trillion]) the curreny is suspended until June 2009. Also the Somaliland shilling is of a lower value than the đồng, but Somaliland isn't recognised as a sovereign state so the đồng is the least valued official currency currently in use.

It's a bit crazy to use, and heading to the ATM to take out 4m đồng is a surreal experience. Even the locals knock off a few zeros when they write up a bill for you, but we're living like millionaires! Damn, hell ass millionaires!

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