The problem with ammo is that it has to be stored. Think about it this way:
A Double-Eagle is about the size of quarter, and it can be carried just as easily and anonymously.
How much effort will be required to carry $1900 worth of ammo?
If you have too much, then you will be forced to defend it. What did Patton say about Fortified Defenses?
How many bad guys are you going to bring down with your gold quarter?
Ammo is fungible and functional.
“...Waht Did Patton say about Fortified Defenses?” [beancounter13, post 41]
Patton - on presumes you mean George Smith Patton Jr, USMA 1908 - was wrong.
And he didn’t say “fortified defenses;” George C Scott said “fixed defenses” in the 1970 film directed by Franklin J Schaffner & written by Francis Ford Coppola. Adapted from the book _Patton: Ordeal & Triumph_ by Ladislas Farago (Ivan Oblensky, 1963). Some doubt exists about the provenance of the quote anyway. Common occurrence.
Fortifications - armored/engineered fixed defenses - are no good in isolation but can be vital components in over all resistance to invasion. None are completely bulletproof but they can cause major delays to an advancing enemy.
They figured prominently in both World Wars. For starters, read Sir John Keegan’s one-volume history of World War One.