In a collapse scenario I can see silver and gold quickly become THE barter item to have. All of these nuts who think it will be shoot to kill f everyone are wrong. I see no reason why reasonable humans will act more or less like civilized people AFTER the unprepared learn their lesson...
Read what Selco a real life shtf survivor has to say:
I will add this; Right now in a land of plenty there are people willing to fight and kill for a pair of sneakers or a big screen tv what do you think they would be will to do for a can of beans when they haven’t eaten in a week?
You must know alot more reasonable people than I do.
Other than a semi-local FReeper and a few preppers to the west of me, there isn’t anyone close I could count on to be reasonable in a collapse or post-collapse (this includes local relatives).