Anyone know what the exchange rate is for the Zim Dollar these days?

What time is it... It changes that fast.

Hey, ask Bobby Hansen. He'll know. Just remind him of the spilled Diet Coke on his calculator, so if he doesn't get it right the first time he can recalculate it again.

UEG:

Yep...Bobby would know!....but he won't accept payment in Zim $$!! But as l2s states...they'll only give you daily quotes....and the # changes HOURLY it seems. As a matter of fact, a guy at SCI was handing out ZIM$500 bills with his info on it as a business card....said it costs A LOT LESS than buying cards! That should tell you something.

Gary
DRSS
NRA Lifer

This will only give you the government rate!

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

That site doesn't have it. Yesterday I was talking with the outfitter GarBy refered to and I think he said 40,000 to one.

"That site doesn't have it. Yesterday I was talking with the outfitter GarBy refered to and I think he said 40,000 to one."

That means Zim $1 million would be U.S. $25. Anyone know how I can buy it at that rate and have the bills delivered to Tucson?

Bill Quimby

Reading the above posts I was led to to thinking about when I was in Zimbabwe in May 1993, and stayed at a hotel in Harare overnight before my charter flight into camp. Next morning (after staying in a comfortable but average room in what was a Sheraton, as I recall) checking out, I was presented with the bill. I saw the figure that read something like $1200!. I looked up at the desk clerk who was a good guy and took pity on me. He said that figure was in Zimbabwe dollars -and that the rate was 6 to 1 (official) with US dollars. You know, 1993 isn't that long ago. It truly is sad what has happened to Zimbabwe.

gerrys375:

I know what you mean. In 1994, in Bulawayo, we ate at a really nice barbecue place. I paid the bill for six of us, bar bill & all, & it was like $60.00 US. A beer was either .25 or .50 cents I think. A bottle of Coke was even less. It was a little worse in 96 but nothing compared to now. What a shame.

Official rate at this minute is $1.00 = $259.00+- Zim dollars.

Good old basic cornflakes are Z$90,000 to 130,000 a box, and fancier breakfasts are even worse. Oats are not even available, but you can buy imported breakfasts for over Z$200,000 a box.
I found this on this web sitewww.sokwanele.com/blog/2005_10_01_blogarchive.html

If it were safe (don't know if it is or not these days with all of the scams), guys should check their checking account balances while there.

I bet they will be googleaires!

Black Mzarket rate is 1US$ = Z$5000 9 That is, five throusand new dollars- remember we chopped three Zero's off a few months back so 1- 5 million old dollars)

Tourism rate is arround US$1-Z$3600 (ie that is what the safari operator will get for the money he runs through the bank and the exchange rate that will most often be used in working out the PH's pay.

However- if the government keep the gold mines closed (they have shut down arround 8000 small mines becuase they were selling the old on the black market at Z$80,000 a gramme instead of selling it to the government at Z$16000 a gramme...) Of cource it was the gold being smuggled out of the country that was paying for our fuel imports, so while 27,000 small scale miners sit in jail and the mines are closed hard cash is running out