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it's not a better deal, it's just fancy money. when you buy something, you trade value for goods or services. so keeping a collection of silver pieces is a good idea when you need to spend it, i.e. when the euro supplants USD as the world reserve currency after peak oil.

gold is compact wealth that you never sell. the whole point of gold is to take a chunk of contemporary value (e.g., 20% over spot), and "sink" it into an immutable form that you die with. then your descendants become stewards of that wealth, which will certainly rise over the long term, unless you fuck a low-IQ thot and father retarded kids who sell it and squander your investment.

i see your point though. doomsday prepper circles are concerned with silver and junk silver because they can't see past their own lifetime. that's not to say that i don't automatically screen all my change for 0.900 dates, but i don't jerk myself off buying massive amounts of silver.