Post-War currency

The currency in the Fallout world has varied from game to game.

Fallout


Bottle caps, also called "Hub Buck", are the standard currency in Fallout.

Bottle caps are backed by The Hub merchants. The technology to manufacture bottle caps and paint the surface has been lost since the Great War, which greatly limits any counterfeiting efforts. Without new ones being produced, the finite supply of bottle caps serves to preserve their value.

Fallout 2


In Fallout 2, NCR dollars backed by gold are being used by the 3 big powers: New California Republic, Vault City, and New Reno. Bottle caps have become worthless.

The town of Redding uses Morningstar Mine Scrips and Kokoweef Mine Scrips as currency.

Fallout 3


Bottle caps are the standard currency of the Capital Wasteland in Fallout 3. Of note is that, unlike previous Fallout games, when you drink a Nuka-Cola, its bottle cap is added to your total money.

In addition to bottle caps, a form of pre-War currency is not uncommon. Pre-War money appears as a stack of indistinguishable bills. The item is valued at 10 caps per stack. Though most commonly found lying around or in containers, residents of Point Lookout sometimes carry pre-war money on their persons.

Fallout: New Vegas


In Fallout: New Vegas, each of the three big powers have their own currency. NCR dollars return as NCR's respective money, while Caesar's Legion use "Legion money". The outlying survival communities as well as New Vegas proper still use bottle caps.

Exchange rate
The exchange rate (based on the rate when changing money into chips or cashing in chips at a casino) is as follows:

1 bottle cap = 2.5 NCR Dollars

1 Legion Denarius = 4 bottle caps = 10 NCR dollars

1 Legion Aureus = 25 Legion Denarii = 100 bottle caps = 250 NCR dollars

This exchange rate also seems to be used for Caravan bets.

Note that MOST vendors will not use these rates when trading the NCR dollar or the Legion Denarius.

Fallout Tactics


In Fallout Tactics, both Brotherhood Scrip and Ring Pulls are used.

Brotherhood Scrip is a currency used only by the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel for trade within the Brotherhood. Brotherhood traders accept only this currency with the exception of some outsider traders that are present in most bases and accept ring pulls.

Ring Pulls are used as currency by people in the vicinity of Chicago. They are pull-tabs from soda cans. Ring pulls can be found all over the settlements in early missions and traders will accept them. There are usually some outsider traders in Brotherhood bases who will accept ring pulls as well.

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
Bottle caps are the standard currency in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

Special Bawls bottle caps are worth 50 regular caps each.

Van Buren
Bottle caps return to the Core region as the currency of Van Buren. Due to the NCR's war with the Brotherhood, the gold dollar's value has been reduced to null, leaving caps as the only still-reliable currency.

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