Sounds like the early stages Solzhenitsyn's description of the Soviet "Gold Rush".

Stay safe out there, and stack.

(This will reach the West again like 1933 https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-6102-forbidding-the-hoarding-gold-coin-gold-bullion-and-gold-certificates, but today's West has the administrative structure in place to take it as far as Stalin)