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A Zimbabwe tourist promoter is facing a year in jail for overprinting 10
cent banknotes as business cards at a tourism fair in London, he is being accused of insulting behaviour. One matchstick costs Z$3,000 and a bag of sugar Z$3,000,000. Officially inflation in Zimbabwe is 8,000% but the true figure is closer to 90,000% and is expected to reach 100,000% by the end of the year. Billy |
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On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:18:29 GMT, "note.boy"
wrote: A Zimbabwe tourist promoter is facing a year in jail for overprinting 10 cent banknotes as business cards at a tourism fair in London, he is being accused of insulting behaviour. One matchstick costs Z$3,000 and a bag of sugar Z$3,000,000. Officially inflation in Zimbabwe is 8,000% but the true figure is closer to 90,000% and is expected to reach 100,000% by the end of the year. Billy With prices like that, what do they do with a 10c note? I guess you can buy about a grain of sugar with it! Is it illegal to overprint banknotes, even worthless things like Z$, in the UK? Padraic -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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"Padraic Brown" wrote in message ... On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:18:29 GMT, "note.boy" wrote: A Zimbabwe tourist promoter is facing a year in jail for overprinting 10 cent banknotes as business cards at a tourism fair in London, he is being accused of insulting behaviour. One matchstick costs Z$3,000 and a bag of sugar Z$3,000,000. Officially inflation in Zimbabwe is 8,000% but the true figure is closer to 90,000% and is expected to reach 100,000% by the end of the year. Billy With prices like that, what do they do with a 10c note? I guess you can buy about a grain of sugar with it! Is it illegal to overprint banknotes, even worthless things like Z$, in the UK? Padraic This is a case where a Zimbabwean businessman overprinted them probably in Zimbabwe but distributed them in the UK. But even if he did it in the UK, I am sure Mugabe would find a way to still take exception to it. Fact is the country is led by a nutcase. |
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"Padraic Brown" wrote in message ... On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:18:29 GMT, "note.boy" wrote: A Zimbabwe tourist promoter is facing a year in jail for overprinting 10 cent banknotes as business cards at a tourism fair in London, he is being accused of insulting behaviour. One matchstick costs Z$3,000 and a bag of sugar Z$3,000,000. Officially inflation in Zimbabwe is 8,000% but the true figure is closer to 90,000% and is expected to reach 100,000% by the end of the year. Billy With prices like that, what do they do with a 10c note? I guess you can buy about a grain of sugar with it! Is it illegal to overprint banknotes, even worthless things like Z$, in the UK? Padraic -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com He had the problem when he got back to Zimbabwe, it would not be illegal to overprint on non UK notes in the UK, I suppose. I have a small collection of advertising notes, small because they don't turn up very often, some are reproductions of the current English £1 note of the time and their use ranges from political to advertising a bar in Spain. Some are German inflation notes from 1923 overprinted with adverts ranging from cinemas to garages, and political. Billy |
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On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:50:50 GMT, "note.boy"
wrote: "Padraic Brown" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:18:29 GMT, "note.boy" wrote: A Zimbabwe tourist promoter is facing a year in jail for overprinting 10 cent banknotes as business cards at a tourism fair in London, he is being accused of insulting behaviour. One matchstick costs Z$3,000 and a bag of sugar Z$3,000,000. Officially inflation in Zimbabwe is 8,000% but the true figure is closer to 90,000% and is expected to reach 100,000% by the end of the year. Billy With prices like that, what do they do with a 10c note? I guess you can buy about a grain of sugar with it! Is it illegal to overprint banknotes, even worthless things like Z$, in the UK? Padraic -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com He had the problem when he got back to Zimbabwe, it would not be illegal to overprint on non UK notes in the UK, I suppose. Is it illegal to overprint UK notes? I have a small collection of advertising notes, small because they don't turn up very often, some are reproductions of the current English £1 note of the time and their use ranges from political to advertising a bar in Spain. Interesting! I wonder why bars in Spain would use reproduction UK notes to advertise? Some are German inflation notes from 1923 overprinted with adverts ranging from cinemas to garages, and political. Billy I've seen some of those, too. Over here, we also get adverts on the backs of repro CSA notes from time to time. And Ukrainia Dvi wrote: Fact is the country (Zimbabwe) is led by a nutcase. That is certainly true! Padraic -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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"Padraic Brown" wrote in message Interesting! I wonder why bars in Spain would use reproduction UK notes to advertise? Because a lot of their customers are UK tourists escaping the cold weather of the UK for sunny Iberia. Whole cities in Spain and Portugal are English speaking now, many many expats there. |
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"Padraic Brown" wrote in message ... On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:50:50 GMT, "note.boy" wrote: "Padraic Brown" wrote in message . .. On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:18:29 GMT, "note.boy" wrote: A Zimbabwe tourist promoter is facing a year in jail for overprinting 10 cent banknotes as business cards at a tourism fair in London, he is being accused of insulting behaviour. One matchstick costs Z$3,000 and a bag of sugar Z$3,000,000. Officially inflation in Zimbabwe is 8,000% but the true figure is closer to 90,000% and is expected to reach 100,000% by the end of the year. Billy With prices like that, what do they do with a 10c note? I guess you can buy about a grain of sugar with it! Is it illegal to overprint banknotes, even worthless things like Z$, in the UK? Padraic -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com He had the problem when he got back to Zimbabwe, it would not be illegal to overprint on non UK notes in the UK, I suppose. Is it illegal to overprint UK notes? I have a small collection of advertising notes, small because they don't turn up very often, some are reproductions of the current English £1 note of the time and their use ranges from political to advertising a bar in Spain. Interesting! I wonder why bars in Spain would use reproduction UK notes to advertise? When handed to UK tourists in Spain they would at first think that they were being given a genuine £1 note but when looked at again the back bears an advert for the bar. Billy Some are German inflation notes from 1923 overprinted with adverts ranging from cinemas to garages, and political. Billy I've seen some of those, too. Over here, we also get adverts on the backs of repro CSA notes from time to time. And Ukrainia Dvi wrote: Fact is the country (Zimbabwe) is led by a nutcase. That is certainly true! Padraic -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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