Question Please About Opm Rounds

If it is purely for survival items I would go with the rounds, in a survival situation no one is going to be looking up the value of junk coins.

The few survival sights I've perused almost universally prefer junk silver, due to its immediate recognition factor, although a great many people will have to be educated about the difference between pre-1965 coinage and all the clad junk that came after (with the exception of the 40% coinage that had a small run after that date).

As hard as it is to imagine, as a card-carrying member of the numismatic niche market in which we are happily cocooned, the average person wouldn't know an ASE or Maple from any other generic round. One can safely assume most silver, in all its myriad forms, will all be almost completely foreign to them. But anything stamped sterling silver and USA will, eventually, be a great selling point for what remains of the hoi polloi.

OTOH, in a survival situation, staples and everyday goods that actually aid in helping you, you know, survive, are going to have far more tangible value that silver or gold.

Only after things settle down and bullets stop flying, the world's nuclear arsenals are all spent, the zombie apocalypse is at least somewhat under control, bandits take periodic breaks from raping and pillaging your wives and daughter, the militias stop stealing (or appropriating, as the more considerate soldiers might pause to say as your house is ransacked of any valuables in sight), plagues and laboratory-concocted viruses are done weeding out the very young and infirm with equal indifference, religious extremists are through burning heathens at the stake, and EMPs have finished wiping out all electronics than aren't ridiculous hardened, essentially sending what's left of society back to the 1800's, will some PM exchange be viable.

Lol, that comes after the zombies. You can't have a crisis without a backup crisis.

The thing with 90%ers that most survivalists ignore is that you have to use circulated coins with no numismatic value and those coins are worn down. Therefore you need a scale for each transaction, otherwise you'll have widespread shaving of coins once again and a renewed distrust of money. One troy ounce is the standard for trade so until we can decide on smaller amounts to use as national currency the 1 ouncers will have to do.

As for EMPs, just buy an old car without electronics.

OPM is alright. But the best survival items are food and bullets. They both prolong your life, food moreso. Silver will not save your life, it'll only weigh you down. Cigarettes would IMHO be a better currency than gold or silver.

Maybe that slingshot celebrity guy Jeorg Sprave could design a coin-shooting slingshot gun that could be used as a close-in defensive weapon. Silver coins could be used on vampires and werewolves.

OPM rounds are awesome. They look real nbice and they are pure 99.9% silver. In Canada, that makes a big difference between OPM rounds and junk silver. I dont like junk silver. Sunshine mint rounds are good too.