A clarification on gold

Recent inquiries have asked whether the gold leaf affixed to each standard represents an investment vehicle. It does not. The leaf is a witness — a material that does not corrode, does not fade, does not lie.

We selected gold because it remembers. A standard buried in soil for a century will be lifted from that soil unchanged. That is the only property of the metal that interests us.

Citizens are reminded: the standard is not for sale, not for resale, and not for collateral. It is for carrying.