Why not use silver as a means and facilitator of trade?
Anything of value, but paper money wouldn’t have value.
Why would anyone want to accumulate wealth based on paper money after it’s already been devalued once and with prices going up because everyone is now receiving a check for doing nothing, you would soon have to increase the amount of the check everyone was receiving just so they could live.
Once you decrease the value of the money to the point it wipes out accumulated wealth you’ve got runaway inflation.
Paper money becomes worthless.
People would be glad to work just for food.