Gold may be great in the long, long, long term, BUT...
How long before society calms down enough to even think about civilized barter/trade after a SHTF scenario?
Gold isn’t even on my radar.
In a collapse scenario I can see silver and gold quickly become THE barter item to have. All of these nuts who think it will be shoot to kill f everyone are wrong. I see no reason why reasonable humans will act more or less like civilized people AFTER the unprepared learn their lesson...