barter

Interesting read. To Smoke or Not to Smoke: The Cigarette Economy in Postwar Germany, 1945–48 During the three years after World War II, Germans—facing a ruined economy and wildly depreciating currency—turned to cigarettes as a medium of exchange on a massive scale. Allied occupation...

Not 100% sure this is the right section, but reading the description for the "PM's" and "Silver" sections, not sure those were 100% right either. So please move if there is a better section for it. I occasionally post on the odd survival/prepper forum here and there, and often talk turns to...

Saw these people exhibiting at the State GOP convention last week. They were selling copper and silver rounds from various private mints: http://www.opencurrency.com/ They are creating a marketplace for barter / commerce using metals. I don't know a whole lot about them right now - I need to...

Just curious on how you guys approach this... I have rarely bartered for PMs. But, once I cut down a tree for an old metal detecting / coin collecting friend of mine (actually father of a friend) and he paid me in good quality "junk" silver. I didn't ask for anything, but he insisted...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/16/greece-on-breadline-cashless-currency?newsfeed=true Clearly, such a terrorist network needs to be shut down by the internet police. /sarc

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8855271/Eastern-europeans-steal-chewing-gum-for-currency.html :shrug: This is not "tradition".