I have some experience in this regard:

If you don’t mind leaving a paper trail, Apmex.com is very reputable and has perhaps the best prices (or close to it) on the internet.

Not wanting to get in your business, but may I ask what your purpose in buying physical gold is?

In Canada the price is 3% over spot with a premium for Canadian Maple Leafs which are .9999 instead of the usual .999.
For buying no ID of any kind is ever required if you walk into a store.

No sales tax for coins here in TX. I've never had to pay a premium for Maple Leafs, but have for Silver Eagles.

That should be obvious.
WHEN the dollar collapses to zero (or near-zero) he would rather have 10 gold ounces than $13,000 which will be able to buy 13 rolls of toilet paper after the "1000:1 revaluation"

Long story short, gold is a reliable storehouse of value. Your wealth is maintained. Humans have valued gold and silver since the Creation, and will continue to do so until the End of Time. Gold and silver have never been scattered about cities with no one bothering to pick them up. But this has happened to paper, fiat currencies COUNTLESS times.

Don't think it would be the first 1000:1 revaluation. There have been dozens of revaluations of this magnitude in the 20th century alone! Don't think the USA is special.
Yes, it's the world reserve currency so it's somewhat special, but that just means that when it collapses, most of the world goes with it.  It doesn't change basic mathematics, the exponential function, or anything like that.

Yes, of course.
But if hyperinflation is the cause for interest in gold, the I wonder if perhaps he isn’t considering the wrong metal?
In that scenario, it will not be gold which has the greatest value, but lead.

Gold for bread only works if there is still some semblance of law and order, like in the video.

And it (or better yet, silver: more easily divisible) is good to have some metals for such situations.

But in the case of WROL (Without Rule Of Law), the man without lead is dead (and people with the commodities you want to barter for will not be interested or n gold/metals.  They will want food, ammunition, gasoline, alcohol, and other practical necessities.

Then later, as societies begin reforming, metals will regain value as stores of wealth.  But in a total SHTF scenario, they will be worthless.

OP here. I would be interested in gold because it seems solid and more reliable if there ever was an economic crisis with inflation as everyone always fears. Also because interest rates on savings accounts are lower than the inflation rate gold is more appealing (not to get into an argument over the potential sin of usury of having a savings account). But mainly I just really like the idea of having some gold coins. It attracts me for some reason. I would like to have a few valuable coins hidden in a box in my house instead of some digital currency in a bank. I do not have a lot of money, but I would like to buy a few gold coins with some money that I will have available soon. I would only have a few thousand dollars to invest so I could only buy at most a half a dozen coins in the next year or so. One thing is that I would prefer it to be as private as possible. I am sure this is a concern for many who buy gold. I would not want the government knowing that I had bought gold as I would not want them having records and coming to my house with guns to take my gold if things get worse (as many fear the government confiscating their guns, I would fear them confiscating gold as well). So in that way I would fear buying online and perhaps going to a physical store with cash would be best even though it would be more expensive.

You want silver for trading/bartering/buying items in bad times (i.e. like food, clothing, normal items).  Gold is for large purchases (i.e. car/house), paying off debt and keeping wealth.  I suggest you get a mix of 1 oz silver and also fractional silver (1/4 and 1/2 oz) for future bartering.  I'd also get fractional gold - 1/4 or 1/10 oz.  It costs more to get fractional but it's good to have options in case you ever need to sell the metals.  If you needed to buy a car and only had 1 oz of gold, and the car is only worth 1/10 oz, how are people going to "make change" and give you the difference, if all they own is worthless paper money or anything other than metals?  Just a thought.