Updated caption ✨ series sold out ✨ congratulations to all the new collectors!!!! —————————————————— Why is gold expensive? Not because it’s rare or useful. Yet no other material has started wars, built religions, and driven people to madness. So why? Because it quite literally is eternal. Bury it for 3,000 years and it comes out gleaming just as it was. Ancient Egyptians covered their pharaohs in it because they believed gold was the flesh of the gods. In the 1600s, a Japanese warlord built an entire tea room of gold because he believed the ritual of tea deserved to happen inside eternity. Religions across the world like Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam (to name a few) all acknowledge gold as representing the heavenly divine. Gold has been the muse to many artists throughout history, many who had to beg patrons to pay for it because of its cost. Every century and every civilization can agree how divine and timeless gold is. Because time touches everything... except gold. An...