What Would Be Used as Currency in a Post-SHTF World?

“Currency” only has meaning when there is the luxury of a marketplace. If the world is in survival mode then there is no marketplace, there is only survival.

A reasonable example of this was the Pilgrims in Massachusetts between 1620 and 1660.

When the Pilgrims arrived here, they did not use “currency”. There was no marketplace. They were too busy doing what it took to survive to buy and sell. The few tools and small amount of food they had was parceled out according to rules that they had: if y...