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About United States Gold
Gold has been a valuable material for longer than any other substance or entity in the history of human civilization. Born as a result of explosive supernovae and sprinkled throughout the surface of the Earth, the yellow metal has continuously attracted humanity for millennia. It is noteworthy for its appearance, its durability, its conductivity for electricity, and it is malleable to the point of making large and extraordinarily thin sheets. Furthermore, gold rarely bonds with other elements and is almost always found in its natural, native state.
Because it is an attractive metal and can be worked into any shape, a sense of value was placed onto gold very early on. The added bonus that it doesn’t corrode means many gold artifacts have survived through generation upon generation in the exact form they were shaped into. It did not take long for ancient civilizations to begin trading in gold, and the first coins to be made of gold and traded as such were created under the orders of King Croesus of Lydia.