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Show Gold Facts and Fancies Man's love for gold has spanned the centuries and it's easy to see why. The rarity of gold, its malleable qualities and lustrous beauty, beau-ty, have ftiade it a mark of wealth for more than 6,000 years. Gold has always been so prized, in fact, that many people once believed that rather wishfully it could be made by artificial means, using lesser metals as a base, through a "science" known as alchemy. Though this was no more than a fancy then, modern scientists have succeeded suc-ceeded in making some of the alchemists' dreams come true. Do you have a particularly particu-larly prized piece of gold jewelry? Even if you've just bought it, it may be much older than you think. Many gold objects have been cast, melted down, recast, remelt-ed remelt-ed and so forth, so the gold in an earring could have been worn by someone thousands of years ago. Transparent featherquills filled with gold dust were used as "coins" in Pre-Columbian Pre-Columbian Mexico. Today, To-day, Mexico mints gold bullion coins in nine sizes, A series of beautiful and valuable gold bullion coins minted in Mexico have the highest worldwide circulationmore circula-tionmore than 75 million. including a new one-ounce, one-half ounce and one-quarter one-quarter ounce coin. These are known as the "Gold Coins of Mexico," a series The peanut is really a bean, not a nut. whose circulation is more than 75 million worldwide more than any other series of currently marketed gold bullion coins. Minted at the Casa de Moneda de Mexico, the oldest mint in the Western Hemisphere, they are particularly prized by American investors and collectors. col-lectors. In addition to providing pro-viding a range of choices to investors, the attractive Mexican gold coins, considered consid-ered by many experts to be the world's most elegantly crafted bullion coins, can be fashioned into pendants, earrings, rings or stickpins. |
