What Kind Of Silver To Be Holding During Financial Crash

I heard a good argument for Barber dimes on youtube. The guy said that they are a small demonination and they don't resemble regular Roosies.

But silver is silver and gold is gold. If you have a scale it doesn't actually matter. Canned food will rule.

You can make booze but premade high end booze or fan favorites will be highly desirable. Ciggs do go bad after a while, chew lasts a bit longer, but if theres no other options smokers will smoke old ciggs

No, they don't. Most people would not even recognize that they were one US coins. Although this is stamped on them, lots of Barbers are now "smoothies" and the stamped words cannot be read. I prefer the Roosies, myself. They are cheap with a low premium, are recognized, and contain the usual dime sized 0.07234 oz of silver.

Yes, booze CAN be made... and as a chemist, I can do that rather easily... good beer too. Maybe that will be my "in" should I ever need to join a group of survivalists.

Would like nothing better but those would be filled with, ummm, bio-fuel, yeah, that's it.

I'd like to throw this out into the pot for consideration. The problem with Roosevelt dimes and Kennedy dimes is that there is both clad and 90% silver coins out there and if you take them in trade you have to spend time in checking out what is given to you in trade. Mercury dimes and Franklin halves are older and there should be no confusion between what is silver and clad coins.

Further, I had read a blog about a survivor of the civil war in Yugoslavia and the main thing that I took from that writing is that precious metals were good for the first year but after that and they were gone you still needed a fall back position or skill in order to survive. If you were lucky enough to have a lot of family or friends you were better off then someone alone. Simple skills can mean a lot when it comes to bartering. Something like the ability to refill butane lighters, making your own spirits, hospital emergency care. The knowledge to repair wounds or even something basic like suturing a wound can be a big help for you.

The ability to take a crop the whole cycle through (seeds to sowing to harvesting and back to seeds.

However, the biggest thing is the ability and willingness to do what is necessary to protect your property and family. Saying you can do something is far different from actually doing it. An old timer told be way back when that the first time is the hardest, but it doesn't get any easier over time. You just need to be willing to do it. Ask some of the guys who have been in the service and have actually had to do something for protection.

The most valuable comodity after a meltdown is your knowledge. Something as simple as soap or socks is going to be more valuable than a lot of things. Liquor is a good bargaining commodity as well as salt or toothpaste.

Now is the time to pick up what you and your family will need. Try to heat some food up without a source of fire.

In my mind precious metals, guns, or ammo isn't the answer to long term survivial. It's the power of your mind and how to use it properly.

In a long term meltdown gold and silver will be used up first. If so then what are you going to do.

Yes, that could be a problem but it is likely to be a superficial problem. All 90% silver coins are heavier than their Cu-Ni counterparts. Not to mention that 90% silver coins, even if they have the same design as some of the Cu-Ni coins, are ALL white and do not have a reddish-brown stripe through their middle when looked at on-edge.



Indeed so but the trick before things collapse is to not get tangled up in the regs against booze manufacture without a license. After the collapse, people will do what they need to do and the government, if any, will have their hands so full that they will not have the time or the resources to pursue anything that is not of immediate and critical necessity.



I absolutely agree with this. But I also know that there will be three basic stages to any collapse: 1) immediate; 2) mid-term; and 3) long-term. It is the guns, ammo, and silver that WILL get us through the 1st two stages so that we can then worry about the 3rd stage; which will be irrelevant if we cannot get to it. I'm also thinking that for at least the 1st two stages, most economic activity will be very localized. Because of that, any silver or gold in a given locality will tend to stay there. There will be some losses to near-by communities, of course, so eventually most of the silver and gold will be dispersed. This is OK because in becoming dispersed, it IS doing its job as a barter item and those who possessed it were able to use it to purchase the products and services they need.