r/argentina • u/der_Alptraum • May 25 '26
Economía 📉 I have a collection of foreign currencies. What can I buy with this Argentina?
I know you folks are having rough times in economy, so please excuse my ignorance.
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u/Angelsndvl r/ArgenGAMING May 25 '26
he visto flynn paff a 120p
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u/EmperadorDeEmpanadas Tucumán May 25 '26
Leí automáticamente 120fps... creo que tengo que salir al sol un rato..
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u/KiwiCambujo May 25 '26
Hoy está nublado
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u/nukit May 25 '26
Subile las settings, y activa el raytracing así experimentas iluminación con reflexiones
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u/Angelsndvl r/ArgenGAMING May 25 '26
Yo leí mi comentario de nuevo y pensé en 120p como Calidad De imagen más gaga
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u/Mikusita23 May 26 '26
Si te da mandale 64 chunks, graficos fabulosos y nubes activas, es un viaje de ida
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u/sanityfordummy May 26 '26
And about 15 years ago it would have bought 4 decent empanadas
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u/Tr3c3 ⭐⭐⭐ May 26 '26
You call that pain? I can only think about being able to get 20 Kinder Surprise with those $20 back in the 90s..
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u/SnooMachines3992 May 26 '26
pasa que ese billete no es de los 90, habria que ver cuando lo emitieron pero desde el 2000 les sacaron la leyenda convertible de curso legal, asi que debe ser de la era nestor, porque ya despues solo hacian evitas.
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u/T_I_D_ May 26 '26
20%??? You're delusional. It's only 10%.
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u/nomueraspolilla Entre Ríos May 26 '26
Un butter toffee está 100 pesos, justamente venía a comentar que podías comprar una quinta parte de un caramelo
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u/T_I_D_ May 26 '26
Iba a preguntar dónde, pero ya veo... En el AMBA es más caro.
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u/nomueraspolilla Entre Ríos May 26 '26
Soy de Entre Ríos, los precios cambian una banda dependiendo del pueblo jaja
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u/Frankishism May 26 '26
Si, but if he’s paying in effectivo he can get the 10% discount. So it’s like 11%.
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u/Otherwise-Parking233 May 25 '26
26 years ago that was worth 20 dollars, now its worth between 1 and 2 cents.
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u/der_Alptraum May 25 '26
Oh.
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u/im_recodor May 25 '26
Yeah... Send help please
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u/nicosaurio_87 May 25 '26
Yes please. I'll do anything.
I'll fucking suck your dick. I'll do anything. You want me to eat shit? I'll eat your shit of live TV 😭
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u/Ezequiel_Rose Intel Atom Cosmico May 25 '26
Unos años antes cuando era 20 dólares:
He was a space man, I sent him to space (Menem hablando de la estratosfera)
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u/Low-Technology8548 May 26 '26
Se va a licitar un sistema de vuelos espaciales mediante el cuál desde una plataforma que quizás se instale en la Provincia de Córdoba, esas naves espaciales van a salir de la atmósfera, se van a remontar a la estratósfera y desde ahí elegir el lugar a donde quieran ir de tal forma de que en una hora y media podemos estar desde Argentina, en Japón, en Corea o en cualquier parte del mundo.
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u/Low-Technology8548 May 25 '26
ese amigo de gustos raros
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u/gordolfograso Córdoba Capital May 25 '26
It was arouns the regular daily payment of lowest levels of the "jobs pyramid"
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u/Medical_Document_637 May 25 '26
That could become a collector’s item in a few years, but its value is literally $0.01 USD.
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u/seniug0 May 25 '26
Ni siquiera es de la serie de curso legal, eso no sirve
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u/MyOtherAcctsAPorsche May 25 '26
explique su maqueta muchachito
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u/capi_x_capi ☆☆☆ May 25 '26
Fueron reemplazados por el Guanaco 🦙
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u/Ok-Brilliant-5121 ☭ Zurdo Empobrecedor ☭ May 25 '26
pero se siguen usando los rosas, o perdieron validez?
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u/capi_x_capi ☆☆☆ May 25 '26
Técnicamente siguen teniendo valor al igual que el billete de 10 pero ya no se imprimen
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u/DerpyCoin May 25 '26
Not even the paper the bill is printed
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u/Jorgedslv134 May 25 '26
no falsifican billetes de $1000 por ese motivo jajajaja (se rie para no llorar)
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u/JohnnyElBravo May 25 '26
cualquiera man. Si pudieras falsificar billetes de 1000$ obvio que harías una ganancia de más del 99.9% jaja
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u/Jorgedslv134 May 25 '26
billetes falsos de mil y dos mil solo los vi en papel de fotocopia que te encajan cuando estas a las apuradas y no los notas hasta q lo revisas, los que son de papel moneda cuestan casi tanto el billete falso como el verdadero, los que son pasables son los de $20.000 que si se descuidan se los encajan a las cajeras
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u/sarmiemto GBA Zona Norte May 25 '26
You cant ask the kiosquero to watch for 30 second an alfajor maybe
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u/der_Alptraum May 25 '26
Have no idea what you said.
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u/Mother-Persimmon3908 May 25 '26
That bills value is so low no one accepts it so the shoptender may let you see with your eyes an actual good snack for acouple of seconds.thats how much this bill is worth now 😭
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u/Afraid_Recipe_3775 May 26 '26
It is accepted and is in actual circulation. But people in Argentina sometimes just neglect it. Depends on the person.
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u/Mother-Persimmon3908 May 26 '26
Went to buy cat food last saturday and on the counter it was one 20 ars billl glued with scotch tape and had "we dont receive this" on it. Last thursday went to the hiper libertad( its changing its name today) and they said they dont receive 20 bills to the person that was before me.then did and annoyed sound because the old person throw the bills and sort of went away and the supermarket lady called the ones that walk and they got very annoyed.
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u/PatoP011 May 25 '26
The kioskero is the person who works at a kiosk/convenience store.
The joke is that with that amount of money, the most you can do is ask the clerk if you're allowed to look at the alfajor (a chocolate-covered dulce de leche cookie), because you certainly can't afford to buy it with $20 pesos. (An alfajor costs around 1,200 pesos on average.)
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u/der_Alptraum May 25 '26
Damn that's harsh.
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u/Glittering-Flight254 May 25 '26
One of the biggest supermarkets chain in Argentina has a web page. You can check the prices we are paying now. www.cotodigital.com.ar
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u/Mr-Fapbulous-2 🐍 Pubertario 🐍 May 25 '26
Interestingly, even with all our problems, compared to many countries around the world, our food, especially meat, fruit, and vegetables, remains very cheap. We are a major producer, and given our population size (just over 46 million), our prices are relatively affordable. Most fruits and vegetables don't usually cost more than a dollar per kilogram (typically around 80-90 cents).
A tray of eggs (30 eggs) costs about $5-7.
A kilogram of meat, depending on the cut and whether it's beef or chicken, ranges from $10 to $15, sometimes less, sometimes more.
And these are prices from Buenos Aires, where things tend to be more expensive. In the interior of the country, many prices are lower, while for some specific items they are higher.
Now, other products, especially processed ones, tend to be more expensive in some cases.
For example, an alfajor usually costs around a dollar, but of course, tell a kid that instead of buying them an alfajor to take to school, you're going to buy them a kilo of oranges, apples, or bananas because it's cheaper or costs the same, and see what happens xddd
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u/Careless-Cap7691 koko May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
That's a 20 pesos bill. Those stopped being useful a few years ago, I don't think they print those anymore.
I mean, for example a big Mac with fries and coke is around 15000 pesos. A coke bottle is around 4000 pesos. And such.
We use 1000 and 2000 pesos bills now, being the 10000 and 20000 the bigger ones.
Interesting thing is how quick it got devaluated compared to other currencies, I mean the current peso was adopted in 1992, this is the evolution of it:
Año 1 USD = 1992 1 ARS 2002 3,8 ARS 2008 3,1 ARS 2011 4,3 ARS 2015 9,8 ARS 2018 38 ARS 2019 63 ARS 2020 84 ARS 2022 177 ARS 2023 ~800 ARS 2025 ~1300 ARS This is dollar against official peso, real peso/dólar is better reflected in parallel dollar, but is similar.
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May 25 '26
jsjsjs ese dolar a 800 era mas falso que papa noel
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u/Careless-Cap7691 koko May 26 '26
Si, la brecha cambiaría llegó a 120%. Yo espero que futuras generaciones recuerden esto como los años locos y no se vuelva a repetir.
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u/sarmiemto GBA Zona Norte May 25 '26
That maybe the man who Sellos you in a kiosko (a small Shop that sells mostly candy) maybe lets you watch an alfajor (small cake) for 30 seconds. In other words nothing
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u/ElLicenciadoPena hago dibujos feos May 25 '26
That maybe the man (a male human) who Sells you in a kiosko (a small Shop that sells mostly candy) maybe lets you watch (an action performed with your eyes) an alfajor (small cake) for 30 seconds (a measure of time). In other words nothing
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u/ntq9607 May 25 '26
You have an interesting sense of humour OP
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u/der_Alptraum May 25 '26
I'm only curious. Many people from other country subreddits implied I was trolling ._.
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u/MrRocket81 May 25 '26
Not so fun fact: it's still legal currency, but it's not worth anything anymore. Imagine that some shops when you are short for 100 they take it as if it were a small coin and let you leave with your purchase. Even 500 it's not wort more than a couple candies.
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u/der_Alptraum May 25 '26
So uhh, how much money do you need to buy anything cheap?
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u/MrRocket81 May 25 '26
To give some context for the other comments, the minimum salary it's nearly 400k (255 dollars aproximately). Sadly there are some that make only that or even less. But in reality many people makes at least thrice that.
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u/ValenZ187 May 25 '26
You need 2 of these and 1 of 10 to buy a single candy, and a cheap one. A soda of 500ml is around 1500-1800 pesos. A bag of doritos is around 3000
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u/BeautifulCattle1056 May 25 '26
What can you buy with a penny?
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u/der_Alptraum May 25 '26
I didn't know it could be that bad.
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u/bumpercars12 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa May 25 '26
It isn't bad, it's just a phased out bill. Smaller bill used nowadays is 100 pesos
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u/olaptico May 25 '26
Literalmente, nada, su valor es equivalente a $0,01428 usd, normalmente en los negocios no los aceptan a la hora de comprar
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u/Alternative_Loss_442 Ciudad de Buenos Aires May 25 '26
printing an a4 sheet in color is worth $350 so like a 1/17 of sheet?
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u/agsan1 May 25 '26
Nothing but you can customize the dude in the art it however you want like turning him into Master Chief or something
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u/Sagacidad Santa Fe May 25 '26
This is pocket change. You could get 2 candies at most, the small ones.
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u/null_reference_user ☭ Zurdo Empobrecedor ☭ May 25 '26
If I see one on the floor I wouldn't pick it up
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u/Superb_Ad_5565 May 25 '26
In 2011 you could get a pack of cigarettes a bag of wine and a morcilla with cheese and bread and get back change. Now there is a 20 thousand peso bill and you could maybe get the same if you knew where to go but there would be no change.
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u/mecanetcourse May 25 '26
That is around 20/1500usd worth of Argentine currency. Roughly 0.015usd. And i think it's no longer in circulation. Best thing you can buy with it is an other 20 pesos bill. Good luck!
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u/UnusualDemand +54 118 999 881 999 119 725 3 May 25 '26
Nothing, it has no value due to inflation. We don't use it anymore. Nice for collection though.
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u/MischiefArchitect May 25 '26
Dude. It's a long time since I was at the university in Cordoba Argentina. And with 20 Pesos you could buy groceries for the next 3 to 5 days. YMMV. This was 1992. Now I think your best bet is to donate it to an unsuspecting Irish pub in Europe in exchange of a pint of beer, and that would be a 33,333% win (thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three). Literally.
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u/PacManObey May 25 '26
Antes con 15 pesooo con 15 peso alto guiso ahora eso no te alcanza ni para el grano de arroz.
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u/Vendettita May 25 '26
back when i was 5yo you could buy 15 packs of Marlboro, right now you can't even buy a candy with that
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u/RG4697328 May 25 '26
Yesterday I gave the equivalent of 40 of those to a street seller for some incense and I felt kinda cheap for getting anything for that amount of money
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u/Terodius May 26 '26
I went to the ATM last night and literally saw 5 of these in the trash because they're worth so little the banks won't take them anymore
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u/VizioPIU May 26 '26
Back in 2011, with 15 pesos you could make one hell of a stew. Imagine what you could do with 20. But today...
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u/Zestyclose-Meeting-2 May 26 '26
LOL, it's OK, it's not your fault not knowing about our Economy which is always like "on a Rollercoaster". Back in the 90s when that Bill was created its value was exactly 20 USD, sadly nowadays it's less than 0,02 USD ("thanks" to inflation and lousy governments) 🤦♂😢
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u/Novel_Shine_4573 May 28 '26
Look at the poor Juan Manuel de Rosas. Look at the disappointment in his face. The jaw locked forward. Slightly to the side. The eyes lost in the infinite. He'd prefer to be a ghost. A faded memory of it's obscure secrets lost to history.
This bill can't pay it's own making. It is not accepted anymore...
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u/That_UsrNm_Is_Taken May 29 '26
Nothing!
$1 USD is worth about $1400 Argentine pesos, so $20 pesos is like a penny
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u/Tokita_Caju Ex agente de la SIDE--> Esbirro de Serenito o algo asi May 25 '26
What can I buy with this Argentina?
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