It depends on your reason for holding it. It sounds like you want it to be your SHTF currency when the dollar collapses, so silver makes sense. As an investment, gold is typically preferred because it's more of a pure precious metal investment. On the other hand, the value of silver is more heavily influenced by it's use in industrial applications. Big investors don't want to think they're parking money in a precious metal safe harbor and then have the value of silver fall because China decided they were going to shut down a chemical plant or something.
It depends on your reason for holding it. It sounds like you want it to be your SHTF currency when the dollar collapses, so silver makes sense. As an investment, gold is typically preferred because it's more of a pure precious metal investment. On the other hand, the value of silver is more heavily influenced by it's use in industrial applications. Big investors don't want to think they're parking money in a precious metal safe harbor and then have the value of silver fall because China decided they were going to shut down a chemical plant or something.
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