“If you need to buy $50 worth of absolute necessities, it’s going to take a lot of dimes.”
That depends on the value of silver. A silver dime weighs 2.3 grams; there are 28 grams per ounce; so about 12 dimes equal one ounce. If silver is about $20 per ounce, then 12 silver dimes = $20 (or, what used to be valued as merely $1.20 is now valued at $20).
$50 worth of necessities would therefore require 30 silver dimes. That’s 20 fewer dimes than are needed to fit into one of those paper dime rolls.
I’d say that’s not many silver dimes to buy a bag or two of necessities.
If the seller has been asleep the past 10 years and doesn’t realize that paper money is worthless and refuses to accept a silver dime as worth anything but ten cents, then by all means pay him in paper.
My point was that sellers may not pay out according to the value of the silver content.
It’s just one of the points that survivalists make repeatedly on the survival boards.
Just something to think about.