“If you can, buy GOLD!”
I think silver is a better deal. Gold is like having $100 or $1000 dollar bills. Hard to get change and the premium on fractional gold is pretty high. Junk silver and some eagles.
I had a buddy who had bags of old mercury dimes. His position was that if the SHTF then silver would be the currency of choice, as it was in the old days. Gold is just too valuable to be practical except for very large purchases. I think that's true. So if you are investing in gold for the purpose of having a physical commodity to use if the world ends then go silver instead. But most people aren't thinking of actually using it as currency.
I also suspect silver is better but where can one purchase precious metals without getting ripped off?
Conservative media has been peddling Gold Exchange and all these other groups for over a decade but they all looked like fly-by-night to me.