Old R200 note

Those are the best for impressing people when you snort cocaine: you look like you've got loads of cash but it's actually not really worth anything.
oh my goodness !!! who does that ha ha ha
 
As this neatly demonstrates, paper money can be arbitrarily invalidated. Yes, the reserve bank says they will still exchange them, but they do so only to maintain the highly theoretical "legal tender" status of these coloured pieces of paper. Moral of the story - don't stash your loot in cash, it could be meaningless tomorrow.
 
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