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Supertrope to [[Practical Currency]] and [[Energy Economy]]. Not to be confused with [[Funny Money]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[Carl Barks]] story "[[Shangri La|Tralla La]]", Scrooge McDuck and his nephews travel to a [[Utopia]] that operates on the barter system. But when Scrooge accidentally introduces bottle caps into the economy, the people fixate upon the novelty and start using it as currency, to the point of neglecting productive work. [[It Gets Worse]] when Scrooge tries to fix the problem by bringing in a ''billion'' bottle caps so that there are enough to go around.
* The eponymous race in ''[[Orc Stain]]'' uses petrified slices of orc [[Unusual Euphemism|gronch]] [[Squick|as money]].
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/1/A-Thing-Of-Vikings A Thing of Vikings]'', a ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' fanfic that places the events of the first ''HTTYD'' movie in a realistic historical context, shed dragon scales become a ''de facto'' currency first for Berk and then for Europe as a whole.
== [[Film]] ==
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