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So this.
You buy gold and silver for restoring your wealth after a SHTF.
That could mean months to years after.
You need ALL THE THINGS to get you through the SHTF loooong before you need gold and silver.
The ONLY time I might use gold or silver during a SHTF would be to buy my way to safe passage out of the country if needed (bribes etc.) because cash may have collapsed in value.
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It seems that many people have "SHTF" prioritization of needs grossly incorrect.
DEFENSE, SHELTER, WATER, FOOD
Instant, 3 minutes, 3 days, 3 weeks
That's the time it takes those issues to kill a person.
If we were really concerned about surviving "it" we wouldn't be on the internet. We'd be chopping firewood, planting more fruit trees, securing our INCREDIBLY REMOTE home, canning food, reloading ammo, studying field medicine, learning to: preserve seeds; distill vinegar; produce yeast; grow produce; improve animal husbandry; learn squad level light infantry tactics; improve marksmanship; etc.
HOWEVER, we mostly like to talk about these things and stop by Wal-Mart on our way home to buy an extra few cans of beans for our "larder".
I'm not accusing anyone ... I'm speaking from experience.
When a person asks about precious metals they're either well advanced in their "preparations" or they are misinformed. People shouldn't care about having 10,000 ounces of gold if they live in a sub-division with 300 hungry souls that will end up over-running their stick-framed contemopary house.
However, if you have a retreat (better yet ... LIVE YEAR ROUND AT A RETREAT), have 3-7 years of food, 100-250k rounds of ammunition, six ways of storing and purifying water (along with a minimum of 15,000 gallons of potable water storage), a minimum of seven properly maintained pasture (0.33 acres of vegetable garden, 0.67 acres of orchard, 0.5 acres of bramble production, 0.5 acres of rough forage, five acres of rotational animal paddocked pasturing land), minimum of five properly forested woodland acres, a complete assemblage of homestead animals (chickens, pigs, milking and meat cattle and perhaps goats) as well as tools, guns, farm equipment, silage storage, barn storage, animal shelters, etc ........ then ......... you should definitely start thinking about 10 years after the collapse when you want to barter.
ETA: Yes, we use to live on an organic homestead 35 minutes from the nearest town. It was a PITA. We sold the homestead, and gave away all of the survival crap. Then we moved back to town like normal people.