Real estate and lead.
To wit: food & timber resources, and the means to protect them.
Gold is only useful for holding value thru to the other side of the event, if you have enough to spare getting there.
I’m in agreement on the RE & lead.
RE in arable land, to be specific, with trees.
Silver is for trading.
Gold is for holding value to “the other side”, and I think it would be the last thing on the ordered list of things to put your currency in.
To wit: food & timber resources, and the means to protect them.
The problem is how to pay property taxes(aka, rent to the gov't)