I know what you mean ... but I'm curious now ... if I take you hyperliterally ...
1 Box of 9mm Federal AE 124-gr weighs 22.8 oz (google.com)
22.8 oz of gold is worth (as of yesterday) $43570 (cnbc.com)
$43570 buys more than 100 CASES of the above ammo (midwayusa.com)
Done ...
And really…wouldn’t you have both?
There is a lot of “country wisdom” on these threads. But in reality, you are not going to get rich very fast with gold. And you don’t want to live in a world where gold is $10k.
Are you really going to load up all of your possessions and gold and hit the road? Are your 10,000 rounds of 5.56 ever going to be used?
Sit down and have a plan. You would be better off having a months worth of expenses in cash on hand in case the banks go down. A couple hundred rounds of stored ammo would have you hunting for a couple of years.
There are a lot of doomsday folks in the gold and ammo threads.
Have a plan first. Be real. Then execute it.
Applying that logic, a 300lb wife is worth more than one that weighs in at 125.