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jonapete2001
Nov 29, 2003, 06:52 PM
I am just wondering, my friend sent me 250 dinars, do you know how much US dollars that is worth?


Rower_CPU
Nov 30, 2003, 01:26 AM
Originally posted by jonapete2001
I am just wondering, my friend sent me 250 dinars, do you know how much US dollars that is worth?

http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

Kinda off-topic though...
amnesiac1984
Nov 30, 2003, 09:04 AM
Originally posted by Rower_CPU
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

Kinda off-topic though...

odd that it appears that 250 dinar is around $837, can you catually cash them in though? It seems odd that the iraqi currency is so high. and in pounds it is £486 ! very odd.
Stelliform
Nov 30, 2003, 12:46 PM
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Durandal7
Dec 1, 2003, 01:05 AM
Originally posted by jonapete2001
I am just wondering, my friend sent me 250 dinars, do you know how much US dollars that is worth?

If it is in the old Saddam-style bills then I would hang on to them, could be of value to collectors one day.
jonapete2001
Dec 1, 2003, 01:14 AM
Originally posted by Durandal7
If it is in the old Saddam-style bills then I would hang on to them, could be of value to collectors one day.

Yes, it is an old bill with Saddams ugly head stuck on it. My friend says he has literally thousands of these things. He maild them to all his friends and family.
zimv20
Dec 1, 2003, 01:29 AM
Originally posted by jonapete2001
My friend says he has literally thousands of these things. He maild them to all his friends and family.

a military friend? isn't this technically looting?
jonapete2001
Dec 1, 2003, 02:45 AM
Originally posted by zimv20
a military friend? isn't this technically looting?

I have no idea how he came across them. I think the are actually distributed to the soldiers. If I remember corectly he said he gets them and used them for buying things at local iraqi sandwhich shops and the like. I did not get the impression that he stole them. If he did that would be wrong.