Increasing forest fires would boost the value, but then watch-out for those damn illegal tree farms printing their own money.

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.

You mean like… a greenback?