Top 10 weirdest currencies in the world

By Xu Lin
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 Off with his head!(无脸头像纸币)

Off with his head!, one of the 'top 10 weirdest currencies in the world' by China.org.cn.

Off with his head! [finance.qq.com]



In the African country of Zaire, known today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the new government found itself in a cash shortage after the totalitarian regime of Joseph Mobutu was overthrown in 1997. To alleviate this problem, it used large stacks of old 20,000-zaire notes, simply punching out Mobutu's image, until the new currency was designed and printed.

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