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Among the ninety naturally occurring elements found on Earth, only one managed to captivate nearly every civilization that ever existed. The Egyptians treasured it. The Greeks admired it. The Romans built monetary systems around it. The Chinese revered it. The Persians accumulated it. The Aztecs and Incas considered it sacred. Separated by oceans, languages, religions, and thousands of years of history, these civilizations all reached the same conclusion. Gold was different.

For most gold stackers, the journey begins with a coin, a bar, or perhaps a package arriving in the mail from a bullion dealer. The gold is clean, refined, stamped, and ready for storage. The only questions are usually whether the premium was reasonable and where the metal should be stored. What is easy to forget is that every ounce of gold sitting in a safe today began its journey somewhere very different. Before it became a Gold Eagle, a Maple Leaf, or a kilo bar in a vault