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Four more African inflationary tunes

Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Congo are now represented, but so far there’s nothing from Zimbabwe or in French.

Zimbabwean banknotes from 10 dollars to 100 billion dollars, issued 2007-8.

Any Nyanja speakers out there?

Help me with Elube, please.

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  • Leonard Woolley: Ur excavations Vol 4 the early periods (1956) £200.00
  • Launch of the Queen Elizabeth in the presence of Their Majesties The King & Queen at the yard of John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank, Tuesday, September 27, 1938 (1938) £28.00
  • Leonard Woolley: Alalakh. An account of the excavations at Tell Atchana in the Hatay 1937-1949 (1955) £48.00
  • London Chronicle, 1791 Vol LXIX (1791) £112.00
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