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[–] 2 points 9 months ago

People traded black market food-voucher derivatives in the Brazilian hyper inflation...

It made it easier to redeem all of them as soon as you got a hold of them, because they wouldn't buy the same thing through the entire month. Natural gas vouchers were more stable, though, so those only traded at face value.

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