"Charles Ellson" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:46:33 +0100, wrote:

ITYF the USD is a universal black-market currency in countries where
the economy has gone tits-up, possibly accompanied to a lesser degree
by Sterling and Euros or any more local "trusted" foreign currency.

Euros yes, but I do not think that sterling would be a universal
black-market currency.

I would also expect that rands would be the hard currency of choice in
southern Africa, as a substantial part of the Zimbabwean population is in
South Africa.