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HAHA! What good is gold anyway? When the SHTF, are you going to have to shave off a sliver from your brick of gold to buy your food at the farms or the grocery stores? Do you think a $10.00/hour clerk at the cash register at Walmart will be able to micro-measure your gold shavings, look up the exchange rate, and actually accept those slivers?
Maybe you should instead be investing in a good course in bartering. You'll be competing with those flooding the country from North Africa, and I understand that they are experts in bartering for everything they need that they can't get free from the guberMINT.