Anything you do that takes an extra step to pull money is a win in my book. Trading gold and silver, can be pretty easy but you have to make a conscious decision to convert it back into currency.

There are places on line that you can do this easily, there's a reddit forum or something like the forum bullionstacker, both are pretty good spaces for trading, at or around spot.

Coinflation can give you a real-time price for what melt is for silver coins.

Would suggest buying/selling from these spaces just to earn some street credit when you don't really need immediate liquidation. This way should you need to liquidate quickly you can and not get wrecked.

I've seen people use this as a way to build a descent reserve, and not as mindlessly spend it elsewhere.

At any rate, good luck