Bottle of Chardonnay Goes for 180 Trillion Dollars
Neleen Strauss, co-owner of City wine dining restaurant High Timber, currently has 180 trillion Zimbabwean dollar notes at the restaurant, which have become a real talking point amongst diners bemused and unused to seeing such colossal figures on bank notes.
She has even been getting offers from some of her diners to purchase the notes with hard UK currency, with the irony of the GBP equivalent versus the high face value not lost. The notes are made up of a 100 trillion, 50 trillion, 20 trillion and 10 trillion and were acquired when a customer recently made an unconventional request to purchase a bottle of the Thelema Chardonnay 2007 with the Zimbabwean notes.
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