Post Apocalyptic Currency

[jamescorck]

I go for Computer chips and wires. Though Fallout got the right idea using bottle caps.

 

[antidark777]

5mm rounds. Seriously i have thousands of them in my megaton house

 

[JohnTomorrow]

I'd have to say a barter system (i'll give you five cans of beans for a box of bullets), or physical favours (or the sexual/non-sexual type, i.e. a blowjob for a can of beans or medical/trade expertise for food and shelter).

 

[jonnosferatu]

Well the apocalypse has come and gone and the value of paper money has gone down from the most powerful force in the universe to toilet paper. Now society needs currency in some form, since no one wants to contemplate how many bananas a suit of power armor is worth or how many lollipops a nuke launcher costs. So, what would be ideal in this post apocalyptic wasteland?

As above - it'll be bullets and food, plus some trade value added to various services (e.g. ability to fix electrical devices, particularly anything used for water production/desalination) and value will be determined by the Usefulness:Bulk ratio.

Protein powder and milk will likely be two of the most valuable substances on earth.

 

[RanmaYagami]

Bottlecaps. It'll definitely be bottlecaps. It has to be. I have too many for it not to be

 

[ninjajoeman]

now that I think about it currency should be something that you don't use once but need because

A. if your currency was food you would eat your food
B. if ammunition you would "eat your ammunition"
C. anything like alchohol or smokes means that you might want to use it.

so if it were something it would probably be guns, food producers (like cows and chickens), and maybe clothing

 

[Odd Water]

No currency, go for the barter system. Items or labor for trade.

 

[rt052192]

there would be no standard currency but more like a barter system, whether it be goods or services

 

[open trap]

Bullets because you cant make them unles you know, ur amazing

 

[ninjajoeman]

Bullets because you cant make them unles you know, ur amazing

far easier to make then money though, and my dad used to make bullets all the time and it looked pretty easy.

 

[hazabaza1]

I say fans. Fans are effective forms of currency.

FANS!

 

[Axolotl]

Early on a barter system would arise.

However any reasonable ammount of time after the end a currency would form.

What the currency is would be determined by whoever is the most powerful party.

 

[Eerors]

Do I win?
I mean I really trust that graph with no data points that someone made in MS Paint.

None genetically modified? How do they expect it to survive the irradiated soil, or the cold nights, or the droughts that'll scour the land?

Where's my mutant carrot??

Back to the topic, barter system will be the best solution until some sort of society emerges from the waste.

 

[ninjajoeman]

Do I win?
I mean I really trust that graph with no data points that someone made in MS Paint.

None genetically modified? How do they expect it to survive the irradiated soil, or the cold nights, or the droughts that'll scour the land?

Where's my mutant carrot??

Back to the topic, barter system will be the best solution until some sort of society emerges from the waste.

coincidentally I went on youtube to say something close to that before you posted this...weird

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Litres of fuel

 

[Tinneh]

well in metro 2033 the curency is Bullets that were made before the blast and dont suck so I think that mite work

Ninja'd! But in all seriousness the whole ammunition thing makes sense. Everyone needs it, assuming that the apocalypse in question required fighting or hunting.

 

[Tinneh]

Bullets, food, medicine, cigarettes, tampons, batteries etc.

Really? Reaaaally?

 

[Spudgun Man]

Something simple and common, but not too useful. I hate to say that bottle caps make the most sense but they do.

The rationale behind the use of Nuka-Cola caps in Fallout 1 and 3 is that they couldn't be easily counterfeited; the technology to make a ridged piece of metal like that dropped out of existence after the war. In Fallout 1, the merchants of the Hub back the value of the caps; in Fallout 3, it's never explicitly stated but it is strongly implied that caps are backed by the Canterbury Commons merchant cabal.

Also the caps seem flatter in Fo3 so they pull a fast one by saying that it's harder to do the paint coating on them.

 

[Eerors]

Do I win?
I mean I really trust that graph with no data points that someone made in MS Paint.

None genetically modified? How do they expect it to survive the irradiated soil, or the cold nights, or the droughts that'll scour the land?

Where's my mutant carrot??

Back to the topic, barter system will be the best solution until some sort of society emerges from the waste.

coincidentally I went on youtube to say something close to that before you posted this...weird

I've never seen us two together in the same room at the same time...maybe we are the same person?

Business proposal: We get together and sell GM seeds. We could take over this very niche market.
We could call it apoclypti-yum!

 

[WolfThomas]

Bullets, food, medicine, cigarettes, tampons, batteries etc.

Really? Reaaaally?

It took a while for someone to notice that...

But yes seriously I'm pretty sure women would trade goods and services for these once they're scarce, have you ever read "Y the last man", there's a comment about how these are pretty much the first thing that starts being mass produced again, once society is stable.

They might be more valuable than cigarettes for those that don't smoke. They also have dubious first aid uses for bullet wounds. Plus they're light, flammable and don't go off, all good traits.