(12 May 2026) A YouTube video came out recently on the uses of silver and how much silver might one need.
Buying and keeping physical silver is not a bad idea.
For American specifically, the Second Signpost would supposedly take away the petrodollar, causing the US dollar to slide into worthlessness via hyperinflation.
As the video mentions, a family needs some sort of currency to buy groceries and heat and use of shelter, indeed if these things are available and buyable.
The video makes the case for a family of four needing 100 silver ounces per year just to survive—basic food, heat, lights, shelter. This amount is based on what silver used to buy us back in the day. The video presents a rule of “500” but that is for 5 years, and we don’t know how long this hard time will last. It could be one year. It could be over ten years as we slide into the Tribulation.
It makes a good point that if you do own physical silver, don’t get a big bar of 10 ounces or more, but rather “junk silver” of US dimes, quarters, and halves, minted BEFORE 1965. A quarter used to buy a person 3 or 4 days of groceries. Likely, it will again.
Purchasing Silver
There have been reports of silver and gold being stolen in the mail. Your best bet is to buy at a local reputable coin store.
A dime has one tenth of an ounce of silver, a quarter has a quarter ounce, and a half dollar a half ounce. A roll of quarters, for example, has a face value of ten dollars. But that roll would have ten ounces of silver. If silver is running $90 per ounce, that would be $900 for that roll of quarters plus a modest commission of 2 to 5 percent.
Don’t bother with silver dollars as they have a coin collector (numismatic) mark up in price over and above the silver content.
That may seen expensive to some, but (1) it will only keep going up, and (2) the fact that it is expensive shows how worthless our dollars have already become.
In the 1800’s when gold and silver were our money, an average worker would make one or two silver dollars per full day of labor.
What is the use of gold? Gold is for sheltering and insuring wealth, and not for day-to-day purchases like groceries.
Just bringing it to your attention. Pray about it.
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THE FOUR SIGNPOSTS 
Mark: Years ago I had a small supply of silver coins when silver was about $7 per ounce. I attempted to purchase a loaf of very high quality bread worth at the time $4 per loaf (1995?). The reaction by the college aged was “Take it to a coin shop and exchange it for money”.
Shortly thereafter I went to a health food store owned by radical conservative and tried to buy a jar of peanut butter worth $4 per jar with an ounceof silver. The owner stared at the coin for a few seconds and said “I don’t know anything about this”. His wife was gone. I am sure she would have taken an ounce of silver.
I am not so sure the average even knows the value of precious metals. I know they don’t in California. Journalist Mark Dice has tried several time to offer people either a gold coin or a FRN of $10. People ALWAYS choice the paper note even when standing outside a coin shop.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN55tfvAUWI&list=PLa8S4GilqogSviCmzIY1jzXCSKcPw5XKl
Karl,
Yes, that’s the way it is now. When hyperinflation hits and dollars are no longer accepted, at that point then it will come down to barter or silver. People will learn.