buying food tools and land is not a viable option for millions of urban dwellers and suburbanites
a single silver dime is now worth the equivalent of a gallon of gas or 2 loaves of bread, two silver dollars will fill a tank or a small grocery bag.
Based on history there is at least some prospect that the correlation in value of silver (or gold) to staples will hold in a survival scenario even based on primitive barter
Junk silver is easy to acquire and store and carry if you have to. No matter what, there will always be trade and barter and gold and silver have been valued for barter for thousands of years
“buying food tools and land is not a viable option for millions of urban dwellers and suburbanites”
Why, are they chained there?
Survival is not viable for millions of [sub]urban dwellers. Don’t be one of them. MOVE.