I think this is a joke, but Virginia had Tobacco-based currency in colonial times. It was just as terrible as one would think. In surplus years, a family coul

I think this is a joke, but Virginia had Tobacco-based currency in colonial times. It was just as terrible as one would think. In surplus years, a family could spend their life savings on essentials to get them through the next season, to be left with nothing when prices spiked the next year.