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I wouldn't have silver or gold for trading in the short term, but if you survive and make it out the other side, eventually gold and silver will certainly be worth having.
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I can't get correct change for a dollar. How am I gonna get change for a precious coin? Back in the American colonial period, they'd snip coins in half, then half again, then half again. Eventually, they started calling the smallest of these "Pieces of Eight." ![[Linked Image from kingmanyachtcenter.com]](https://www.kingmanyachtcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pieces-of-Eight.jpg)
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Coinflation.com/silver coin calculator.
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Local shop selling silver for $26.50 today
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The people around one will matter a great deal more than how much metal- of any kind, he has…
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Gold and silver have always had value and they always will. Don't underestimate the value of spices, sugar and flour. Not to mention coffee and tea......and simple firestarting implements. i.e. Bic lighters, matches, etc.
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I can't get correct change for a dollar. How am I gonna get change for a precious coin? Carry tin-snips and a crack scale.
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I can't get correct change for a dollar. How am I gonna get change for a precious coin? Back in the American colonial period, they'd snip coins in half, then half again, then half again. Eventually, they started calling the smallest of these "Pieces of Eight." This is great. Can you imagine the chick trying to get her GED, with 3 agressive face piercings, cutting up precious coins? Kinda makes one desire the apocalypse.
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This is great. Can you imagine the chick trying to get her GED, with 3 agressive face piercings, cutting up precious coins? Kinda makes one desire the apocalypse. What makes the coins precious is the atoms they're made of. The shape of those atoms shouldn't actually much matter.
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For a short time, yes. What happens next is a de facto government gets set up and money is scarce and barter sets in. That is when an easily identified U.S. coin with known silver or gold content becomes valuable.
Patriotism (and religion) is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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If society breaks down to that point, what is valuable
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Just me- I'd never trade ammo to somebody I
didn't know very well in a time of WROL or SHTF
Maybe bread yeast or baking powder or a
bar of soap or something similarly quiet
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We will all be issued EBT's, peanut butter and canned milk. Walmart will not take silver. They need a bailout soon as it is. Mr. Farmer won't either. His cattle will be rustled and fought over, butchered onsite and his tractors stolen for scrap metal money. Grow your own bugs until the Tax Man evicts you. Brew some beer; make new friends. It will be just fine. Bison meat. APR land is gonna be full of future meat food supply.
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I'm sure people will be trading it with sawdust instead of powder.
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For a short time, yes. What happens next is a de facto government gets set up and money is scarce and barter sets in. That is when an easily identified U.S. coin with known silver or gold content becomes valuable. Look to history, whiskey was the coin of the realm. A metal has less value in a trade than a commodity
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We will all be issued EBT's, peanut butter and canned milk. Walmart will not take silver. They need a bailout soon as it is. Mr. Farmer won't either. His cattle will be rustled and fought over, butchered onsite and his tractors stolen for scrap metal money. Grow your own bugs until the Tax Man evicts you. Brew some beer; make new friends. It will be just fine. Bison meat. APR land is gonna be full of future meat food supply. All lands will be rapidly devoid of food
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For a short time, yes. What happens next is a de facto government gets set up and money is scarce and barter sets in. That is when an easily identified U.S. coin with known silver or gold content becomes valuable. I'll give you a mercury dime worth four bucks or ten 22 shells and five 410,s
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where you get five .410's for four bucks? I just paid 16 dollars for 25... about ....
wow you re right!!!!16/25=.64 apiece.... times 5= 3.20 close enough...
silver coinage will be very useful... we dont find much silver or gold coinage with metal detectors,, or loaded ammunition either..both were useful enough to scrounge and salvage..
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Well yea, no shît But for every day folk, no one is gonna make change off of a Krugerrand for a bottle of dollar general grape dimetap cold medicine for a sick baby. So maybe about 3 smoothed-out mercury dimes would suffice for currency swap. Aside from fat peking duck or pint of booze For small grocery type items, a few years ago, I picked up 300 each, 1/10th ounce silver rounds, for $1.25 each....they are about the size of dimes...but now they are about $5 each....stock up on silver, ammo, and guns.
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