A Few Facts about Gold

• The oldest gold jewelry was found in the tomb of the Egyptian Queen Zer. It was made in the third millennium BC!
• The largest collection of gold and jewelry in the world was found in King Tut's tomb.
• The discovery of gold in the frontier days of the United States would herd thousands of new settlers to the area. Many risked their lives to find gold.
• A gold standard was created to stabilize the global economy (a nation cannot be issued more currency than they had gold to back it up).
• By the middle of the 20th century the US dollar replaced gold in international trade.
• In 1986, the American Eagle Bullion program launched with gold and silver bullion coins (bullion coins were worth thier weight of a specific precious metal).