Yes indeed, the only periodic element that is easily divisible, non-corrosive and soft enough to be molded or coined. Once it is in your possession, it is an unencumbered asset.

Be sure to get yours before the onslaught and coming demise of the Federal, no more Federal than Federal Express, Reserve Notes.

I think most of you reading this right now are aware that gold is unlike any other metal, certainly any other element. It doesn’t play by the same rules as iron or tin or aluminum, and its value has nothing to do with its utility—or lack thereof. People valued the yellow metal for its beauty and malleability eons before they knew of its usefulness in conducting electricity or its chemical inertness.

Source: Gold Was Chemically Destined To Be Money All Along | Gold Eagle