OK... already had some gold but with the price of those coins apiece, didn't think they'd be useful for commerce. So, evading any paper trail, I traded $1k cash for a stack of silver Maple Leaves with the balance in old quarters - figure the spread between purchase/sale will be covered by rising prices AND will have, perhaps some reasonable mediums of exchange if our paper value goes to crap or they force us into black markets with their CBDCs...
For sure, I'm increasingly nervous about overweight in equities asset class...