
And when it was finally discovered, tens of thousands of caps spent to have it brought here. For decades, I paid salvagers to comb the ruins for it. dollars - not the bottle caps that pass as currency these days - but a sum beyond counting. To develop that Chip, I spent a sum of U.S. I designed it, and I paid for it - dearly. I am the only person to hold any rights pertaining to the Chip.

Pre-War money is found throughout the Mojave Wasteland, Sierra Madre, and Zion National Park. The exchange rate is 1:1 - one chip for one (stack of) pre-War money - making it a potentially profitable source of income given the availability of the Sierra Madre chips. In the first add-on for Fallout: New Vegas, Dead Money, pre-War money can be exchanged for (or from) Sierra Madre chips while inside the Sierra Madre Casino. The primary usefulness of pre-War money is as a trade item, owing to its weightlessness and relatively high value. As it has lost almost all value to the inhabitants of the Wasteland, it can also be found in garbage cans. It can be found nearly anywhere money might be found in real life such as cash registers, safes, suitcases and desks. The item is valued at 10 caps per stack and is affected by the player's Barter skill. In Fallout: New Vegas, pre-War money appears as a stack of indistinguishable bills, held together by a green seal. These are typically limited to areas like the Sierra Madre casino or the Nuka-World amusement park. Although the Great War eliminated the United States and its economy, reducing stacks of green bills to little more than collector's items and scrap parchment, certain pre-War devices continue to recognize them as valid currency. The inflation presumably caused by the Resource Wars was severe, leaving banknotes as the primary medium of exchange. United States dollars (USD) were the pre-War currency of the United States of America.

The following section is transcluded from Pre-War money.
