Precious metals when the SHTF

[ChunkyMonkey]

I know the conventional wisdom is to amass precious metals, especially silver and gold, for when the SHTF. I do it along with most people. But One Second After brought up an important point: you can't eat silver and gold. The point may come when they have no value because no one will sell their last box of Froot Loops for even a pound of silver. What are your thoughts? What will become the new currency? I think as in OSA it may be bullets. I'll keep my silver against economic hard times but I won't count on it for physical emergencies.

There are so many level of shtf. In the USA I use the Great Depression as my baseline. Anything below is chaos and no civil order... Anything above, economic depression, etc

In short you cannot have one answer to all shtf scenarios.