Gold hording was good when a local region experienced chaos...the user of gold could move to an economy that still had their system up and running...the problem today is that there would be no place to move that would not be affected by global economic chaos....so horde the items needed to survive...gold should not be one of them...ammo and canned or dried foods ...wine...distilled spirits...medical items...weapons..both blade, gun powder, and archery types will be more valuable than some shiny block of gold!!!
“An economy that’s up and running”
can be in a different geographical region,
but it also can be in a different temporal setting as well.
That’s what gold is for - “transporting” wealth to the working economy, whether it is located somewhere else, or somewhen else.
I have no gold, but I have quite a bit of junk silver.
There are priorities certainly but its not an either/or question. All of those items are needed.
Selco wrote about such a family that had gold and silver in Sarajevo during the siege. a gang got wind of it and kidnapped the father and the son. I believed that the Son survived the father didn’t and neither did the gold.