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What about something like obsidian, jade or polished stone. Tropical forest will have stuff lying under and on the ground that you could use.
 
For currency it must be something that has intrinsic value. If it was seeds (or anything that could just be easily found) they would have to be very rare otherwise everyone would be rich. Actually they wouldn't because everyone would collect so many they would end up with no value.
 
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Currency - before the Spanish conquest, the Mesoamerican cultures used cocoa beans as a currency. As Venusian Broon says, semi-precious stones could also be used.

For tools and weapons, hard woods such as mahogany are very effective, as springs says. Stone is also surprisingly effective and can be attached to wooden handles, etc. Forest vines, or lianas, make very effective cording material to tie things together.

Certain shells have also been used in the past as currency, particularly cowrie shells, but they're not generally found in tropical forests. However, shells do make pretty jewellery, even those from snail and water molluscs as does polished wood.
 
Hope, all of the above suggestions are good, but what sort of world are you making (apart from tropical)?

Dragon eggs would be worth a lot to the right "buyer" for example, either whole and unhatched so the infant dragon can be raised as a riding beast, as a delicacy, or the empty shell upon which you may commit the carving of some fantastical art (which may then increase the value, depending on the skill of the artist).

Religious items? Carvings of gods, demons and sundry supernatural critters -- as sacred/magical objects that either attract good mojo or repel bad. Use stone, bone, or dragon eggshells or dragon scales (preferably not while still attached to said dragon -- they don't like that).

Also, I believe both livestock and slaves may be considered as a kind of "currency" (again, not knowing the details of your world, I'm not sure what you want to use, so I'm just throwing ideas out there and seeing what sticks).
 
And, Hope, if your tropical world is post-apocalyse...

Usable weapons and tools would have enormous value. In the kingdom of the obsidian knife, the man with a Swiss Army Knife is King.

Depending on how long since the apocalypse (and the nature of it), tech is probably no longer functional. That razor-thin plasma TV is now no more than a decorative paperweight. Assuming paper still exists.

In the absence of toilet paper, the last books in the world are valued only for their soft, strong, and thoroughly absorbent pages.
 
He he; there was a bit on the TV last night about soldiers in the trenches in the first wolrd war. They had excavated some personal effects at a dig site which included a small package of carefully preserved scraps of paper. Apparently any bits of paper the soldiers could lay their hands on were carefully looked after for toilet paper. Also apparently one favourite source of such paper was religious leaflets handed out to them behind the lines! :)
 
Also apparently one favourite source of such paper was religious leaflets handed out to them behind the lines!
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Given the meaning of the word fundament*,

Then this castes a whole new light on exactly what a Fundamental Christian is really about...








*buttocks or *rse for those that don't have a dictionary at hand.
 
He he :D

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It's one word in the online Merriam-Webster. Probably a good enough authority to back up your desired choice.
 
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He he :D

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Okay, learning as I go.:eek:
 
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He he :D

[By the way David, if you look to the right of the 'quote' button on each post you'll see a button with " and + on it. You can click on this button as many times as you like (on multiple pages in the thread) and then when you click Post Reply all those posts will be quoted. This is generally preferred to multiple replies.]
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I've used this forum for years and I never knew that. Thank you kindly. I won't have to copy them all out any more.
 
Say I admire someone's take on a review and think they must be a good writer...how do I go about finding posts that person has made to see if they've posted anything for review so's I can read it?

Is there an option somewhere where it say 'See all posts by x'?

Thanking you in advance :D

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