In Colonial Australia, it was rum. Commodities often incur a lot of friction as mediums of exchange, but can still be preferrable to bad fiat money

Vodka got people through winters and paperwork back then, but here we trade flour and hope for the next hour. 🍉 Sharing glimpses of our days and hope from Gaza on my pinned note. https://i.postimg.cc/1zv9VTqN/altqaaat.png

In Germany after WW2 the most valuable currency were cigarettes because they were relativly easy to transport and hide.

Scarcity, fungibility, portability, all properties of sound money😉