Product Description

Gold has been a valuable and highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewelry, and other arts since long before the beginning of recorded history. Gold standards have been the most common basis for monetary policies throughout human history[citation needed], being widely supplanted by fiat currency starting in the ***0s. The last gold certificate and gold coincurrencies were issued in the U.S. in ***2. In Europe, most countries left the gold standard with the start of World War I in ***4 and, with huge war debts, failed to return to gold as a medium of exchange.