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<p>[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 60097, member: 3011"]Regarding the original topic, I prefer the silver maple leafs to eagles for two reasons. First, the purity is .9999 for the maple leafs. Second, they can also be used in circulation as $5 Canadian currency, which is about $4 USD. So you can buy silver with a floor of about $4 under it in case the price of the metal decreases. For gold, I'm not sure purity is much of an issue. 90% gold coins worked just fine as money for a very long time, and probably would again if the need arose.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding everybody's preparation for the end of civilization as we know it; cigarettes go stale, and ammo might be illegal, and therefore dangerous, to use as currency. My uncle told me that in Europe at the end of World War II, gold was of limited value because everyone wanted to sell gold, but there was nobody to buy it and people were reluctant to trade for it because it had no use in daily life. He said that in a busted economy, soap was about the best currency in his opinion because it has a long shelf life, is fairly portable, and is useful so it can be traded for food. So plan ahead and think of all of the cool coins you will be able to buy from desparate collectors for a couple of cases of soap![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 60097, member: 3011"]Regarding the original topic, I prefer the silver maple leafs to eagles for two reasons. First, the purity is .9999 for the maple leafs. Second, they can also be used in circulation as $5 Canadian currency, which is about $4 USD. So you can buy silver with a floor of about $4 under it in case the price of the metal decreases. For gold, I'm not sure purity is much of an issue. 90% gold coins worked just fine as money for a very long time, and probably would again if the need arose. Regarding everybody's preparation for the end of civilization as we know it; cigarettes go stale, and ammo might be illegal, and therefore dangerous, to use as currency. My uncle told me that in Europe at the end of World War II, gold was of limited value because everyone wanted to sell gold, but there was nobody to buy it and people were reluctant to trade for it because it had no use in daily life. He said that in a busted economy, soap was about the best currency in his opinion because it has a long shelf life, is fairly portable, and is useful so it can be traded for food. So plan ahead and think of all of the cool coins you will be able to buy from desparate collectors for a couple of cases of soap![/QUOTE]
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