Silver will be the way to go. A silver dime was worth about $1.33 in silver a few days ago at about $18 per ounce, I think you don't want to be on the paying end though, you will want to be on the receiving end.
There should be nothing you need to purchase, you should be the one that they are...
I like to hear about people's' first-hand experience with a financial collapse, I feel that their information is invaluable.
There is a book on the economic collapse in Argentina called:
the modern survivor manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse
based on the first-hand experience of the 2001...