Originally Posted by
burrocrat
another thing to keep in mind about bullion is that it is nice to have coins in varying weights, like uscfan is doing. during the zombie apacolypse if you are hungry and the going rate for a chicken is 1 oz. of silver but you only have a 100 oz. brick then you got big problems. you could try shaving some off with your buck knife and convincing the merchant it is about 1 oz., but as soon as he sees that you have 100 ounces of silver he is likely to just shoot you, take all 100 oz. and your wife, and keep his chicken.
at least that is how i understand precious metals anyways.
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