Just about everyone who is survival minded is aware of the importance of saving individual coins to use during a survival situation.
Silver dimes and quarters from 1964 and earlier, pennies from 1981 and earlier (1982 copper pennies were a mix of copper and zink) and nickels dating back to the 1800's are all types of coins that provide tangible value, either as themselves or for their metal.
Use these coins for bartering or if coins from our traditional paper currency become extremely devalued. Older coins are also useful if our traditional means of getting paper money became unavailable.
One question people who save coins always have been whether to keep coins in their condition or melt them down in the face of a complete government meltdown.
The video on the next page covers that debate and also goes over ways that coins (nickels and pennies) would be used in most survival settings.
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wow that’s dumb!
Go buy food, med supplies and/or ammo….
Nancy Hill
Value is in the eyes of the beholder. You can’t eat silver or gold, and it has no other use besides money. Look at it this way; how mush has silver gone up in 20 years, vs 22Lr ammo? If you’d have dumped $10,000 into 22 ammo 10 years ago, what would your return be? And you’d be able to use it if SHF.
I’ll be melting anything down for ammunition
I might be crazy, but I actually hope SHTF. The current and hopelessly perpetual zombie Apocalypse that is commonly referred to as “society” or “civilization” could well and go as far as I’m concerned. Anything that promotes an idea of capitalism, or reconstruction of such institutions in the post-future is wrong. I feel that subsistence living, communities are the goal, not despots deemed as Gods the same old story since the first “civilization”
The actual amount of precious metal in coins now days is nil. Not worth saving unless you plan on forging your own bullets.