![]() ![]() While caps were the de facto standard currency in the West, the rise of the New California Republic (NCR) led to the widespread adoption of dollars, backed by gold reserves, which displaced the water-backed caps. An advertising campaign the Nuka-Cola Corporation was testing out allowed the exchange of bottle caps with robotic vendors at the Whitespring Resort due to the release of Nuka-Cola Quantum. Their earliest recorded use by survivors originates in Appalachia as of 2096. įor similar reasons the East Coast merchants also recognize bottle caps as a currency. Finally, the Hub merchants in New California could support it as a common unit of exchange by backing it with water. Second, there is a limited number of bottle caps, which preserves their value against inflation to some degree. The Hub merchants supported bottle caps because of two factors: First, the technology to manufacture them and paint their surfaces had been mostly lost in the Great War, which limited any counterfeiting efforts: The paint used, machining, and metal type all have to be very specific in order for a bottle cap to be genuine. The widespread use by Hub merchants leading to the nickname Hub bucks, Hubbucks, bucks, Hubscript, or just script. The adoption took place rapidly, as within ten years of Hub's founding in 2093, caps became the standard currency of the wasteland. In New California, the relative scarcity of bottle caps made them a perfect currency for Hub merchants to adopt in the post-nuclear world.
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