[ThanhPhero]

In Viet Nam where the unit of currency is worth very little, there is very little theft of cash. It is not worth the effort. Children walk around with impressive looking wads of cash in their hands and no one tries to take it from them.

[Smokin' Joe]

The piaster was a pretty low economic gear compared to the greenback, iirc.

[Smokin' Joe]

Makes you wonder how things were in Germany during the inflation there or in Zimbwabe. I have a 10,000 mark note from the days when a wheelbarrow load would barely buy bread, and a quadrillion dollars (Zimbabwe), worth far more as a numismatic curiosity (ten 100,000,000,000 notes) than it is worth in purchasing power.

People still accepted gold and silver as payment in both places, though.