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[General apocalypse] What are some likely forms of currency to use in a "picking up the pieces" phase of the apocalypse?

I don't know exactly how to phrase that but the world is over, and starting again, this isn't the Mad Max world where brutal raiders fight each other over the rights to pick at the scraps of the old world; in a world where people are organizing back into villages, people are farming and living semi-normal lives again, what might people use to trade with each other? What might a farm owner offer to people coming and going offering to pick corn and help ranch cattle? I'd look at a world like Fallout 1 as a good example but I don't know how likely bottle caps would work as a currency without some water merchants trying to make it happen.
gpt
I think you'd just be like Europe before coinage became popular.

Need harvest help?  A measure of milled grain per man per day. Cattle herders get similar.

There'd be 'market days' where folks would come and trade face to face.

Creating a stable currency that isn't backed by gold or silver is tough.