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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 2233248, member: 15062&quot;]That&#039;s what bullion collectors like to believe.&nbsp; However, in your scenario you believe you can buy food (for instance) with your bullion.&nbsp; What makes you think someone who has a non-replacable item (food) would want to give it up for a piece of metal?&nbsp; Look at it the other way around, if you had 100 cans of beans with little chance of easily replacing them, would you give up some of them for a few ounces of silver?&nbsp; You can eat beans, silver not so much.&nbsp; In your Mad Max scenario your bullion wouldn&#039;t be any more valuable than a bucket of dirt.&nbsp; The only thing I can think of that would have any really trade value is clean water.&nbsp; The only non-food items with any value would be lead and gunpowder (and primers).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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