What's that brick of ammo worth when you want something like a pump handle silver soldered back together?
Need silver for your colloidal water filter?
Need some bullets cast from lead?
Need some gold for a tooth cap?
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Besides, were are a LONG WAY from a total collapse, where money would be worthless.
Depressions, natural disaster, chemical disaster, ect. gold and silver will ALWAYS be worth something.
What I do recommend is you buy smaller coins than the one ounce coils of gold,
It's hard to separate pieces of a coin, most people want to trade for the entire coin, so smaller coins would be a better way to trade, and they are made VERY small, just a gram or two.
I consider anything that has MONETARY currency value a good thing.
Something that isn't tied directly to the dollar is a good idea.
Gold has gone WAY up, which is good for anyone that has been sitting on it,
Same with silver. I've made a tidy amount so far, and If it goes up even more, I stand to make a great deal.
Right now, the most valuable things I have are old muscle cars, they are selling for outrageous amounts, and my time in restoring them has been worth about $100 an hour...
The market goes up and down, but those old cars that have been sitting around in our back field at the farm are bringing up to $150,000 when restored... And most were dumped there years back, no investment at all in them prior to refurbish and sale.
Copper, brass, sliver, aluminum, gold, lead, steel, iron, ect. will all have uses DIRECTLY for you if you have the skills to work with them.
Casting parts from things like bullets to valves isn't difficult to learn, and will make you money VERY QUICKLY in a really beat down world...
Right now, I make a lot of parts for old farm machinery, and that pays VERY well, around $75 a hour when I'm working.
A Re-Built Magneto for an historic tractor usually runs me around $100 in parts, but sells for around $600 (Average), some are much more,
And sale of parts via internet makes even more...
Generators and starters are a little less, but they still average about $50 an hour when you have the work...
I can cast the parts I don't have and can't get, and I can cast/machine many more parts if I need to, but there often isn't any reason to if I can buy the parts for cheap...
In the event of a collapse, I could cast more types of parts since I have the stuff to cast/machine needed parts...
So now the saying goes,
Farmer,
"How much is that brush holder for my generator is worth?",
Metal Worker,
"6 of those $600 chickens..."
Gold isn't the only 'Precious' metal!