"What would you trust if you were in Argentina? You don't want to carry gold around - people aren't accustomed to trading in it and would be wary of it, and eve

"What would you trust if you were in Argentina? You don't want to carry gold around - people aren't accustomed to trading in it and would be wary of it, and even a little bit of gold is a lot of money." Actually a few months back as the economic crisis was hitting full swing, someone posted a really long diary from someone living in Argentina, and he said that (at least during their worst period a few years back) people used gold jewelery as currency, and that since no one trusted the purity, all gold got treated as junk gold, so you were best off having a stock of cheap gold jewelery.