Originally Posted by edgeprod

I was talking about SELLING it on eBay, not buying it ... Meaning there's currently almost zero liquidity in it, and arbitrage through eBay is one of the only viable ways of unloading it.

If you bought it in 2004, you would have lost money because the currency didn't even keep pace with inflation.

There are currency parallels with a number of similar situations, with delisted national currencies in countries with unstable governments and vast natural resources.

Bump this thread when you're a millionaire from Iraqi dinar, and drinks will be on me. I have a shelf in my safe full of it from 2007, so we'll drink from the top shelf.