What is a good form of currency in a post-apocalyptic world?

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For a post-apocalyptic story I am writing, I need to find a realistic type of currency that I can use. The story takes place somewhere between 50-100 years after a nuclear war (haven't figured out exactly what time I want it set at the moment.) It is loosely based off of the game Fallout. I didn't want to write a fanfic, but yet I still want it to have some of the same elements that the games universe had. But anyways....

In the game Fallout, they used bottle caps as currency, but that just seems really unrealistic to me because you would have to carry around thousands of bottle caps with you, and count them out individually if you wanted to buy something.

When the world is practically a wasteland, what type of currency do you think they would use?
Yeah I did think of trading, which would be realistic too. However I think after about 50 or more years of living in the wasteland, I think groups would start forming some type of money system to have jobs and such.

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Hmm interesting question. You can try maybe bullets? As a valuable item to have, to use for trade or to use for defending or assaulting. Would be a pretty interesting thing. A few bullets = little gain such as a chicken leg and a whole magazine = 5 chickens or something. Depending on the type of ammo used, Sniper, Handgun, or AR, you can mix up the trade. Lol idk

why do we have to pay for an MMO to explore the Star Wars Universe?

Vault Boy

Galaxies the game itself was awesome. tons of ships, planets, things to do. i couldnt stand the other people. pubescent boys with their squeeky voices screeching at each other was they battle nearby really ruins a sightseeing trip. and the hackers....it just gold really old really quick. why cant they just make super expansive single player games like they used to?

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cause Bioware decided they could make more money with an MMO rather than making a proper KOTOR sequel.

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