Good points but I notice you, billy, also failed to mention what the nickel collector is supposed to do with all of his rolls of nickels when the SHTF? Or even prior to that for that matter.

Sell em? Who's gonna pay more than face value for a bunch of nickels? Smelt them? And then what? Let's, for the sake of argument, say I have 20 pounds worth of saved up nickels, I melt them down and now I have 20 pounds worth of nickel alloy. How does this help me in a post cataclysmic world?

I'm not opposed to the idea of saving/hoarding but there's got to be a reason behind it or it's just mindless.

John E