>>871841If the SHTF so severally that money is no longer of value, gold won’t be of value either.
You can’t eat gold, you can’t cook with gold, you can’t shoot a rabbit with gold and thus nobody is going to trade items of actual value for a chunk of useless metal.
Buy a 50-pack of Bic lighters and toss that in your bug-out bag, if you want something to trade.