Let me start by saying my orientation is that of trading.
If I had enough money to accumulate physical gold I would use trading profits and purchase the physical.
As I believe an enormous crash is coming that will make 1929 look like a day in the park, the longer term perspective is in one way a no-brainer (have what you can) and in another very difficult (people selling for food).
I used to trade gold futures contracts in 2001 and there wasn't real time info on fills - or price! - sometimes it took an hour. Long sad story short I was stolen on a long position with a protective stop miles, miles out of the money (away from the current price) in a single trade overnight from a dishonest floor trader. I could getting no help from my broker and wrote off the theft to dishonest and manipulated markets - but I stopped trading it.
I did have 5 one ounce gold coins - but had to sell them for rent money.
What I'm leading to is that in a major collapse with cascading margin calls, then people defaulting on debts, losing jobs, their lines of credit closed etc. they still want to buy food and pay rent and will sell their coins if they have to. Selling gold if they have to and gold falling at first.
Also perhaps later stage 2, currencies could implode precious metals skyrocket. So if a one ounce gold coin sell for $1,200 it could go to any price $4,000, $6,000 $10,000 and people lining up to trade and trade imploding paper cash for metal.
But it's very hard for you grocer to make change for $10,000. So then you need silver 1/10 of an ounce (or pieces of eight! LOL - cut your 1 ounce coin into eight!
So long way of saying gold could go to anything - and the govt will come with guns to take it if they can.
I don't have any of the following but I would have
cash at home
weapons (not easy where I live)
then a survival place with a farm enough to grow my own food and some way to stop roving armed gangs from taking it.
Yikes gloomy!!
