$100 bills pour from Dili ATMs? - Building Markets

$100 bills pour from Dili ATMs?

by Building Markets
January 27, 2011

Three days ago a colleague tweeted “Interesting travel fact. Bank machines in Qatar dispense $100 bills. Only.”

He was in oil rich Qatar.

Well something very odd happened last night which reminded me of that factoid from the Gulf.  I went to Tiger Fuel to get $400 to pay a bunch of bills – and all that popped out of the ANZ machine were Benjamin Franklins!

New $100 bills pour out of Dili ATMs

Usually in this country, long tagged as the poorest in Asia money looked like this:

The usual fare in the markets.

But now things are somewhat different.  Readers may make up their own minds why.

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