[fooker]

You can easily trade gold until someone can force it from you.

The amount of gold you can realistically conceal is less than a year of your salary.

[SkyeCA]

A year of my salary is between 1lbs to 2lbs of gold at current prices. Hiding a few pounds of something isn't very difficult, I do it every Christmas.

[XorNot]

It might be worth considering why drug deals are always portrayed as a high stakes, dangerous event (it's because to do the sale, the physical products have to all be in one well known place where everybody knows both the place and time).

[fooker]

How would you go about using 1lb of gold to procure food, water and fuel in a crisis bad enough to disable government/banking?

History has shown than people usually lose all their gold in situations like this, pretty much all the time.

[SkyeCA]

A hacksaw? Just cut it into smaller chunks.

[SkyeCA]

Fur future readers: I was making a joke about Christmas dinner if that wasn't clear.