Sit down and relax because gold has a long and winding story to tell. It has been the subject of wars, a declaration of love, a representation of the sun, and used to view the heavens. Our minds boggle to think that by as early as 325 BC, gold had already been mined from Gibraltar […]

There is something about seeing and touching an item that is ancient. We immediately connect with its history, experiencing something much bigger than ourselves. Ancient coins remind us of how far civilization has come in a relatively short period of time. The oldest coins have as much emotional value as they do monetary worth. Though […]

Happy 4th of July. For those of you living in the United States, I don’t have to tell you how special this day is to us. For those readers who happen to live elsewhere, the 4th of July is the day where Americans celebrate liberty, thank God for political justice, and eat a lot of […]

You probably don’t think too much about your money outside of how to make it or how it should be spent. It buys milk, cars, and DirectTV. You take home that check every Friday that perpetuates the cycle. Unbeknownst to most of us, however, is how the United States Federal Government controls how much money […]

Gold is one of the oldest forms of money, and the gold standard is a system where the money in circulation has a value directly linked to the reserve of gold the country has. It is when the value of a country’s money is tied to the amount of gold the country possesses. Anyone could […]