Next was take cash and hide it, then the thought that they could very easily make hidden Dollars worthless by changing the money and requiring the old money be traded for the new money.
Gold and Silver sounds nice except unless you cut the coins or bullion up into $5 or $25 pieces, you'll end up trading a 1/4 oz for a box of bullets or a bag of groceries.
Bullets? Trouble knowing which cal most traders would want and they are somewhat perishable and hard to carry around in bulk.
To a large degree you are just screwed no matter which way we go. But would like to hear other ideas too.
They will not do that. There is too, too much drug money in cash. Somebody could get dead if they tried this. Obama won't take a chance on getting a 'contract' on himself.
Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to stockpile luxury items for barter. Sugar. Coffee. Cigarettes. Chocolate. Booze...
I have a few old silver coins.
You are right about the currency, I was going through my MIL’s stuff the other day and found some nice denomination Mexican coins, I looked them up on the internet and they are worthless because the Mexicans changed the currency.
Gold is infinitely divisible. You can melt gold and pay somebody any weight of gold you can cast or scrape off. When you are at the point where dollars are good for nothing but toilet paper and a one-million dollar bill buys dinner, gold becomes money. A lot of people think they can't subdivide a one-ounce gold piece. All you need is a file to scrape off as much weight of gold as you need for any transaction or you can melt the thing down and melt off little bbs of gold for daily transactions like a tank of gas. The least of my worries would be how to pay somebody their 1/100th ounce of gold.