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spat said:
So the smallest gold coin is worth ~$200, and is physically so small it becomes difficult to handle as currency.

Silver coins can make sense for normal sized transactions though.
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You can buy 1 gram gold bars for less than $100, which puts in on par with a $100.00 bill. That is an easily tradable denomination of gold.

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And WTF is so hard about carrying a few pieces of precious metals if the need arose? Its called a coin purse, and those can be small enough to fit in your pocket like a wallet.

My advice is to forget about actual, minted coins anyways. There is more value to be had in bullion.

Actual coins of precious metals are more expensive, because a fair amount of their value is counted on how "collectible" they are, which is a very precarious rubric for a storage of wealth. Today's "collectible" value doesn't translate very well in any SHTF scenario, where people are going to be weighing precious metals on scales to decide their value in trade and as part of any test to determine their authenticity. No one is going to give a shit that a gold coin minted by the US Treasury has a Mickey Mouse with a certain year stamped on its face in a grid down scenario. Also, "collectible" varies greatly except for the rarest of coins fall under that rubric.

Rounds and bars of bullion are cheaper to buy and available in nearly every size (grams to ounces to pounds) and numerous shapes. They do not depend on fickle "collectible" valuations. They offer more metal in all nearly all weights than most coins, unless those coins are also .999 pure in content (which put them on par a that point if we're talking about paper money being worthless).
 
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John Stark said:
You can buy 1 gram gold bars for less than $100, which puts in on par with a $100.00 bill. That is an easily tradable denomination of gold.

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And WTF is so hard about carrying a few pieces of precious metals if the need arose? Its called a coin purse, and those can be small enough to fit in your pocket like a wallet.

My advice is to forget about actual, minted coins anyways. There is more value to be had in bullion.

Actual coins of precious metals are more expensive, because a fair amount of their value is counted on how "collectible" they are, which is a very precarious rubric for a storage of wealth. Today's "collectible" value doesn't translate very well in any SHTF scenario, where people are going to be weighing precious metals on scales to decide their value in trade and as part of any test to determine their authenticity. No one is going to give a shit that a gold coin minted by the US Treasury has a Mickey Mouse with a certain year stamped on its face in a grid down scenario. Also, "collectible" varies greatly except for the rarest of coins fall under that rubric.

Rounds and bars of bullion are cheaper to buy and available in nearly every size (grams to ounces to pounds) and numerous shapes. They do not depend on fickle "collectible" valuations. They offer more metal in all nearly all weights than most coins, unless those coins are also .999 pure in content (which put them on par a that point if we're talking about paper money being worthless).
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And again I ask, if SHTF and some guy you never met wants to trade you 1 gram of "gold" metal shot for some food, what value are you going to give him for it ?

How much gold do you think is in there ?
 
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There's a lot of speculation that "they" will use the impending financial shitstorm to bring in CBDC, as a response to "volatility". :rolleyes:o_O

It's just an excuse and won't fix anything - except "they" will now control your $$$$ and, thus, you.

Fuck'em.

The following article makes the point that CBDCs will actually lead to hyperinflation.

Central Bank Digital Currencies Would Bring Hyperinflation | Daniel Lacalle

"The only thing that saves citizens from much higher prices is the fact that the transmission mechanism of monetary policy is independent and diversified. Now imagine for a second if that transmission mechanism was direct and had only one channel, the central bank itself."


"Now imagine if there was only one account, one central bank and the government. Guess what would happen? The complete monetary financing of all government spending driving the currency to hyperinflation in a few years and the obliteration of the private sector. A de facto nationalization. A digital version of the French Assignats. Hyperinflation and full government control and financial repression."
 
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John Stark said:
And WTF is so hard about carrying a few pieces of precious metals if the need arose? Its called a coin purse, and those can be small enough to fit in your pocket like a wallet.
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All of these arguments about carrying precious metals makes me think the best route to take is to start using Pieces-Of-Eight again.
 
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For the earlier post about all the private jets flying to Omaha, it looks like that speculation was correct. They were on their way to see the oracle.



markets.businessinsider.com

Warren Buffett might help rescue the banks again - but he'll probably make less money this time around

Buffett has reportedly spoken to the White House about investing in US regional banks, but he might get worse terms than he did in 2008.
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So, that leads me to the following conclusions, if the regional banks are visiting Buffett then they really are in the shit, they are not stable.
 
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spat said:
And again I ask, if SHTF and some guy you never met wants to trade you 1 gram of "gold" metal shot for some food, what value are you going to give him for it ?

How much gold do you think is in there ?
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Can’t eat gold so foods more valuable at that point to me. If you don’t make it through the turmoil then you can’t cash in when things settle out and gold is valuable again.
 
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Drinkthekoolaid said:
Some real super geniuses are running banks today. Can't imagine how they're failing....

www.businessinsider.com

JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3 million worth of nickel stored in a warehouse. A closer examination revealed bags of stones.

The bank kept bags of stones in a Dutch warehouse thinking they were bags of nickel that would have been worth more than a million dollars.
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Probably spent more in storage fees that it’s worth.
Interesting.

It's likely that Access World is going to bear the financial burden for the mix-up rather than JPMorgan Chase, the Journal said, because it was the company's responsibility to protect the stores of metal in its facilities.

JPMorgan Chase bought the bags years ago and remains an active player in big metals, the Journal said.
 
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spat said:
What if you have plenty of food, but need a new fuel pump.
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Then you trade food for a fuel pump. I don’t see what value gold has during a SHTF type thing. I get people think gold is valuable and it is today but when you need food, water, shelter, and heat gold provides none of that.
 
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