Does Fallout's post-apocalyptic air eat gold, silver, nickel, and copper?

[sigmapsidelta]

It is unknown exactly when the Fallout universe diverged from our timeline, only that it was some time not long after WWII.

So the Fallout US definitely had coinage. And even by 1945 there were billions of dollars worth of it in circulation.

Where is it all?

I've "depleted" a few banks in Boston in my time, but not a single cent, trime, nickel, dime, double dime, quarter, half, or dollar has ever been found, not to mention the gold $1, $5, $10, and $20 coins. The paper money seems to have survived in large amounts, yet the metal coinage appears to have evaporated.
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[R3DSH1RTS]

They melted them to make weaponry, armor, healing supplies, etc.

smh it's so obvious (this is a joke i dont mean to be offensive)

[Von Faustien]

for what its worth fallout 2 had gold coins as money and the legion used them in vegas

[Nightkiller300]

Yeah, lol. It must. Beth never really thought of that.

[Iron Knights]

A lot of stuff makes no sense in this game because they couldn't tie it up if they tried.
PC monitors blown out and gutted, but the money in the same desk, all brand new crisp bills.

[wesnef]

引用自 Goremurder18：

Yeah, lol. It must. Beth never really thought of that.

Except gold, silver, and copper all exist in the game. You can find bars of it (in the basement shelter in Sanctuary Hills, or that downtown gravesite, for instance), and can get gold & silver watches, etc.

It's just that having old-world coinage as an active lootable item would just be a stupid waste & needless item/inventory bloat. (plus, they'd all be antiques from people's collections - look at the magazines costing $39 for instance. There wouldn't be any 2077-era quarters or dimes, even nickel candy would cost a buck.)

[SerraShaar]

Money...

Money never change...

Pre-war...nickel and dimes...

It never change...

Bottles caps.....

It never change...

Now someone go mod that Intro into this!

[Bored Peon]

During Fallout 76 Radiation Rumble preparation phase one of the NPCs comments about finding a penny, then says at least it is copper right?

Going along with the earlier comments about scrapping and recycling I would think coinage would be the first thing to be scrapped for the metals.

Considering Fallout 76 takes place 25 years after the bombs and the rest take place 150-200 years later there probably aint much to find.

[Izuzul]

Just blame it on Vault-Tec

[Bored Peon]

引用自 Reconciler：

Just blame it on Vault-Tec

I blame the mobile over Shaun's crib.

[HazakTheMad]

Likely some wastelander melted them down to make all those hideous pipe guns.

[s.turner3030]

引用自 sigmapsidelta：

That is entirely possible. But the question remains, what happened to the many thousands of tons of metal coinage made before the pre-war inflation-causing recessions?

Some of those thousands of tons would have been in the hands of numismatists, and many numismatists are very wealthy - otherwise who would be able to buy something like a 1933 British penny with a (current) price of around $90,000, or a 1922 high-relief "Peace" dollar (currently) valued at around $120,000. Let alone a 1933 double eagle that, although unlawful to own, has seen an example sold for $5 million, and not recently.

Such people would store their numismatic investments in their safety deposit safes in banks, where 200 and some years later I would come along, pick the safe lock, and add the deceased's prized possessions to my own collection.

If they hadn't all mysteriously evaporated.
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My best guess, would be all recycled for the war effort, all that copper, silver and what not would be very useful for military technology, and chances are the may or may not have made having the old metal currency illegal, except in specific cases, just as America did at one point during the depression where they made private ownership of gold illegal, (sure I have read this somewhere but no idea if it is actually true or not) though in that case I do not think it was for very long. Sure it not being mentioned in game would be a bit odd, but it would explain the lack of metal coins in banks and such, even those that the population would be storing in the safe deposit boxes, There again all those coins could well simply have been looted during the past xx years since the bomb's dropped as metal would be quite useful for various reasons.