Bottle cap

Bottle caps are the standard currency in Fallout, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

Background
In the Core Region, their relative scarcity made them a readily available currency for Hub merchants in the 22nd century. This lead to the nickname "Hubbucks", due to their widespread introduction by Hub merchants. The Hub merchants reasoning for their support was that the technology to manufacture bottle caps and paint the surface had been lost in the Great War, which greatly limits any counterfeiting efforts. Secondly, there is a limited number of bottle caps, which would serve to preserve their value to some degree. For similar reasons, the East Coast merchants also recognize bottle caps as a currency, although who backs them and guarantees their value is unknown.

While becoming the standard currency for Hub merchants in the 22nd century, by the mid-23rd century, they were replaced by New California Republic (NCR) dollars, which were backed by gold. However, shortly after in an ironic twist of fate, caps once again became a regularly-used currency when the destruction of NCR's gold reserves by the Brotherhood of Steel caused the value of a dollar to fall dramatically.

By the late-23rd century the NCR's tenuous grip on the Core Region and the presence of Caesar's Legion (who have their own currency), as well as the low value of the now water-backed NCR dollar, bottle caps have once again become the standard currency of the Mojave Wasteland in 2281, although NCR and Legion currency are both considered legal tender by the various caravan companies and on the New Vegas Strip. Mojave merchants also accept nonstandard variants, such as Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle caps.According to Alice Mclaugherty new bottlecaps are minted from time to time expand the amount of bottle caps in the monetary supply.

Nuka-Cola Bottle Cap


Standard Nuka-Cola bottle caps featuring 21 crimps and ridges, used as the basic form of currency throughout many of the American wastes.

Counterfeit Nuka-Cola Bottle Cap


Physically they appear identical to standard Nuka-Cola bottle caps and are presumably intended to be used for trading in place of actual bottle caps. They are produced of persons unknown, have no trade value, and cannot be used for any monetary purpose.

Sunset Sarsaparilla Bottle Cap


This nonstandard variant, taken off Sunset Sarsaparilla bottles, is used in the Mojave Wasteland alongside Nuka-Cola caps.

Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle caps Bottle Cap


A rare variant of the Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle cap, featuring a blue star on the underside of the cap.

Bawls Bottle Cap
Bawls is a real-world energy drink with a guarana flavor that replaced Nuka-Cola as the main post-nuclear soft drink of choice in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. This special type of bottle cap are valued as 50 times that of a Nuka-Cola bottle cap.

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