Sir Winston Churchill to feature on new banknote

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Alcohol, cigarettes and coffee would be good bargaining tools in the immediate aftermath, following that, food, water, weapons, people.

Yes - the market situation, may it be war, may it be in prison, as well as the availability of possible currency items (cigarettes) determines the value, the amount of interest in sellers and buyers fgor a given item, good or product. In prison, cigarettes indeed get traded like coins, and can go through many hands before finally getting smoked by somebody. It doe snot matter whether it is cigarettes, seashells, grams of salt or tobacco, or gold coins. If a prisoner sees any value in something that others do not see value in, he will be willing to trade for it. Either he wants it himself, or he wants to store some value for future use or investment, or hoping for a bigger profit later than what he could make in profit in the present. Historically seen , gold is a great trading item for most scenarios imaginable. Different to seashells, bread and coats, it also got prohibited by governments to be owed by private people time and again.