Ariary
This is a picture of the ariary note. This is a nice clean beautiful one. Most of the bills are quite used, covered with the dirt and dust of the earth from Tulear. They’re torn and tattered, moist and oily from exchange among the Malagasy. I had to stop and think about the fact that that our dollar bills are retired after a certain time, new ones made. The Malagasy are so poor they don’t even have the money to reprint their currency. 10,000 ariary is roughly $5.00 (actually
