"The Future of Money", page-35

Gold will never be currency in the western world.

Ask yourself one question: Would you take a gold bar as payment for anything, from someone you had never met before? You would need a portable test lab. ie. Volumetric test, weight and dimensional test compared to a known equivalent sample, then a purity test.

Coinage is different. Fakers would face Forgery charges.

I know I wouldn't....Marum.