Current Events > One thing I never understood about the world of Fallout...

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Why do they use bottlecaps as currency?

I get that irl it's to keep with the 50s theme but like what's the in universe explanation, like why not something that already has monetary value like silver and gold?
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Because why the fuck not
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cuz after the wars they had 100's of years of nuka cola surplus
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Because normal coins were probably used for their material.
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Just a guess, but maybe it's just the cheapest possible material and design to be wide scale and easy to move without being too easy to forge.

Or maybe even that little metal is valuable, making every bit count.
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the NCR tried to introduce gold coins back into the fold but that fell apart by the time New Vegas rolled around
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To me the idea of someone carrying around a sack of thousands of bottle caps just seemed funny.
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They didn't have bitcoin when they made the first Fallout game
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Bottlecaps were a stand in for water.
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Ya'll know this is actually explained somewhere right <_<

There's a town in Fallout 1 called the Hub which has vast amounts of drinkable water. Because potable, unradiated water is precious in the wasteland, this water was used to back a currency the same way gold does for us. Bottlecaps were chosen to be that currency because the technology to make and paint them was mostly lost after the war.
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Bottlecaps are currency, because apparently, a single cigarette can be used to make one bed.
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because in fallout world the "central" bankers don't exist anymore