I am going to write about a history that I read time ago.
Many years ago, gold was known as one of the few elements found in its elemental state.
It was taken up by aborigines, to make ornamental things.
In fact, aborigines used an alloy
named electrum as their expression of wealth.
Time later, it became a king
who saw in the gold a potential to be a symbol of wealth.
This was King Croesus, and he wanted
to mint a coinage to boost trade and banking in this lands.
Backed by state authorities,
Croesus minted gold coins, however, for gold to hold greater value than native eletrum, he
needed gold purity to be ascertainable by assay.
With this, gold became subject to comparative
valuation and later in object of worship.
Hundreds of years later, a man was scathing about the corrup effect of gold.
He damned all those
who traded with minted gold, because he thought this metal is the worst calamity of mankind.
The problem is not with the metal itself, but in the transformation the men suffer upon it.
Natural gold carries the light of the sun , he said, but minted gold is a symbol of perversion.
He thought the best is to banish this metal from the lands.
Many years later, some men used gold to make finery, instead, others used this precious metal for
making chamberpots.
January 2014
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