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Its Gold Value, Symbolic Value, & the Billion-Dollar Industry Behind Football’s Most Iconic Prize The FIFA World Cup Trophy is one of the strangest precious-metal objects on Earth. If you look at it only as metal, it is a small gold sculpture. It stands 14.5 Inches (36.8 cm) high, weighs 13.61 lbs (6.175 kg), and is made of 18-carat gold with green malachite bands on the base. FIFA describes it as solid 18-carat gold, and the current trophy has been used since 1974, after Bra

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