How might limited acceptability of antique military hardware in exchange, and difficulties in predicting their values from year to year, help to explain their low liquidity relative to the most liquid asset, money? How might these characteristics affect the likelihood that these assets could function as forms of money?

Assets that people

exchange are typically among their more liquid assets. Most people

willing to accept

antiquemilitaryhardware

in exchange, so their liquidity is relatively

and their usefulness as a medium of exchange is

.

Difficulties in predicting the value of

antiquemilitaryhardware

would make them uncertain stores of purchasing power and thereby also

their liquidity and usefulness as forms of money.