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Bottlecaps as currency isn't such a strange idea in a post-apocalyptic world. It reminds me of the use of cowrie shells as money. It worked fine, until someone figured out a way to get cowrie shells in mass quantities. Bottlecaps are a similar limited quantity token, the problem is that someone is going to dig up a landfill for the bottlecaps, and just like the cowrie shell, they are going to cause massive inflation.
Of course a post-apocalyptic society might have little need for money. Trade would be radically scaled down, and barter would propably make more sense.
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