Gold is money.
Silver isn’t.
Simple.
I’m confused. You mean silver dollars are not money—esp the ones 90% purity?
Silver is money too. The Silver market is much smaller and much easier to manipulate. The govt will try to manipulate precious metals to save fiat currencies. The will raise margin requirements and other things. Gold is harder to manipulate.
The final govt action is what FDR did - confiscate it. It will be a “patriotic” thing to do.
Silver is absolutely money and has always been used as, and considered, money.