If its a bad economic crash then people are going to hold on to what counts, food, water, ammo, medicine. That should be your 1st thing to invest in before dumping any money into metals. How many people do you think would care about metals when the delivery trucks aren't refilling the stores with supplies, not many. Before any real trade begins to happen we would probably have a period of months of people who just want the basics to get by. During that time metals will be useless if there is no sign of things getting better, people would rather hold onto their supplies of food. Metals will be good once things start getting somewhat back to normal but how long could that take, I wonder how many people will be found starved to death sitting on a mountain of silver because that is all they counted on to save them. My advice is to take what you use today to live and invest in that until you have at least 6 months worth. If you have some extra funds then go ahead and buy some Mercury dimes but get the basics first. I agree what was said above about ammo, look how hard it is to find ammo today and we are supposedly in a recovery, imagine how hard it will be to find if the economy really crashes, that will be worth its weight in gold.
