I think of it as sturdier pretty things, as opposed to today, where gold has a myriad of purposes.
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Gold was basically the first workable metal. Gold doesn’t oxidize (rust or tarnish) in its natural state, when almost every other metal does. So many forms of gold don’t need to be refined, only separated from the rock that it’s in. So people figured out how to work gold before any other metal. And since it was the only material like itself (a metal), it gained value and status. Modern valuation of gold is a long chain of using gold as a symbol of value and status, even after other more useful metals began to be worked.
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