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 Post subject: Afghan bill
PostPosted: Tue 03-31-2009 4:57PM 
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I was cleaning out my parent's house and found a bill, which I believe is an Afghan afghani. How or where my parents obtained such currency is a mystery but it had to be sometime between 2002-2004 since that's about the last time they cleaned the house and the bill looks pretty nice and crisp. Anyone know anywhere in Rolla or St. Louis to exchange such currency or if it is worthless, anyone want an afghani?

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 Post subject: Re: Afghan bill
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The airport is the only place I can think of to exchange currency, I think you can in Lambert anyway.
If you don't want it, I'm going to Afghanistan in June for six months, I'll take it...I have no clue what the currency is worth though.


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ramsfan_365 wrote:
The airport is the only place I can think of to exchange currency, I think you can in Lambert anyway.
If you don't want it, I'm going to Afghanistan in June for six months, I'll take it...I have no clue what the currency is worth though.


Not sure if you can exchange at Lambert, they're not much of an international airport these days.

Try Bank of America, they do currency exchange. I got some Euros from them before I went to Germany earlier this month. Although they might only do the main currencies like Canadian Dollars, Pounds, Euros, Yen, etc. I don't know if they'll exchange an Afghani.

BTW, I just checked on xe.com ...one afghani is worth about 2 US cents. It's probably not worth your time


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2 US cents. It's probably not worth your time


lol

you're rich

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Could be worse. It could be a Zimbabwean dollar which is worth .0000000003 cents :D


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I left it at home, but if I remember correctly I think it is 500, so it's not quite that worthless.

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Agentzak wrote:
I left it at home, but if I remember correctly I think it is 500, so it's not quite that worthless.

Ten dollar!

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worst currency evar IIRC... old turkish lira

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any good bank should be able to exchange it. Like a bank in downtown stl. I got money exchanged at a bank like that in tulsa, which is alot smaller.

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I forgot about a bank, I looked into exchanging some yen at a bank and they said that they were going to charge me $15 for about $20 bucks worth. I hope you have better luck.


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When I worked at US Bank here in Rolla, we would do currency exchanges for anyone. The only catch was I think there was a 10% exchange fee. Be sure to look into that when you exchange it.

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Most banks do currency exchanges but you'll get absolutely raped by the amount they get.


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Just use it at Walmart and tell the guy it is the new $100 bill.

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Most banks do currency exchanges but you'll get absolutely raped by the amount they get.


The banks (at least Bank of America) wasn't too bad when I exchanged some dollars for euros. The rates were a little high, but not nearly as bad as the currency exchange centers at airports, they rape you on the exchange rate. The best rate I got was just using my BoA debit card at ATMs in Germany. They have a thing with Deutsche Bank, where I didn't pay any extra fees for using their ATMs. As far as selling currency back goes, I ended up only having a couple Euros left so it wasn't worth the effort, but you'd probably get the best rate (not a wonderful rate, but it's the best you'd do) at the bank since going to Afghanistan and using an ATM to deposit it into your account isn't exactly an option.


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Goran wrote:
Most banks do currency exchanges but you'll get absolutely raped by the amount they get.


The banks (at least Bank of America) wasn't too bad when I exchanged some dollars for euros. The rates were a little high, but not nearly as bad as the currency exchange centers at airports, they rape you on the exchange rate. The best rate I got was just using my BoA debit card at ATMs in Germany. They have a thing with Deutsche Bank, where I didn't pay any extra fees for using their ATMs. As far as selling currency back goes, I ended up only having a couple Euros left so it wasn't worth the effort, but you'd probably get the best rate (not a wonderful rate, but it's the best you'd do) at the bank since going to Afghanistan and using an ATM to deposit it into your account isn't exactly an option.

Or... this could be the perfect excuse to take a nice Spring vacation to Afghanistan.

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