Zimbabwe Needs Our Change. Literally.
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When Zimbabwe converted its currency to the US dollar in an attempt to stem inflation, it didn’t anticipate one problem: the challenge of getting ahold of American coins.
A dollar goes much further in the African nation, sometimes representing a day’s salary. Transactions usually total less than a dollar – but coins are hard to come by, and shipping them from the United States across the Atlantic is prohibitively expensive. Other nations in similar circumstances have minted their own coins, but Zimbabweans lack even that much confidence in their government.
Read more at the New York Times.
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