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The advantages of gold chains:

• The gold is valuable in and of itself.
• There is a larger demand for gold jewelry than gold coins.
• The chains can be trimmed down or cut into sections to make change or otherwise divide one’s wealth.
• There is no way that the government will outlaw the ownership of goldchains. In the Great Depression, the government did outlaw the possession of gold coins.

I would add – get familiar with, and comfortable with, dealing in a ‘barter’ system for goods and services. But perhaps that is what you mean by your fourth bullet point.

Question: Why gold chains instead of gold (or silver?) coins?

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