Mucho Dinar-o.....
As reported earlier, good buddy Joe Galloway was recently on a news fact finding trip to points East, the Mid East that is....including Baghdad. I had asked him to bring me a souvenir, such as perhaps an "I Searched for WMD and all I got was this stupid T-shirt", T-shirt. Or maybe a "Lion of Mesopotamia" gimme hat. But Joe did much better than I had hoped for. Knowing me, he sent cold hard cash. The 25 dinar "Bank of Iraq" note pictured above was enclosed with a letter from Joe informing me that this cash donation was both souvenir and wedding present and not to spend it all in one place.
But now my dreams are shattered, my illusions of war looted riches have been squelched today. I read some disturbing financial news on Omar's Iraq the Model. Omar say's, "The exchange price of the Iraqi Dinar improves a little more from 1750 dinar for each U.S. dollar to 1700 Iraqi Dinar for each U.S. dollar". Firing up my $3 [U.S.] calculator I found that at this new exhange rate, my precious 25 dinar note is worth the total magnificent sum of 1.5 cents. I'd be way short even trying to buy a $3 [U.S.] calculator with the note.
But the letter with the Bank of Iraq 25 dinar note arrived the day after Saddam was nabbed, so it does certainly have some historical significance. And I'll be able to follow Joe's advice about not spending it all in one place. No one place will take it.
As reported earlier, good buddy Joe Galloway was recently on a news fact finding trip to points East, the Mid East that is....including Baghdad. I had asked him to bring me a souvenir, such as perhaps an "I Searched for WMD and all I got was this stupid T-shirt", T-shirt. Or maybe a "Lion of Mesopotamia" gimme hat. But Joe did much better than I had hoped for. Knowing me, he sent cold hard cash. The 25 dinar "Bank of Iraq" note pictured above was enclosed with a letter from Joe informing me that this cash donation was both souvenir and wedding present and not to spend it all in one place.
But now my dreams are shattered, my illusions of war looted riches have been squelched today. I read some disturbing financial news on Omar's Iraq the Model. Omar say's, "The exchange price of the Iraqi Dinar improves a little more from 1750 dinar for each U.S. dollar to 1700 Iraqi Dinar for each U.S. dollar". Firing up my $3 [U.S.] calculator I found that at this new exhange rate, my precious 25 dinar note is worth the total magnificent sum of 1.5 cents. I'd be way short even trying to buy a $3 [U.S.] calculator with the note.
But the letter with the Bank of Iraq 25 dinar note arrived the day after Saddam was nabbed, so it does certainly have some historical significance. And I'll be able to follow Joe's advice about not spending it all in one place. No one place will take it.
