During my absence, I took a road trip up to Manhattan to attend an event in the city. I arrived in the city about three hours before the event began, so I decided to walk around lower Manhattan for a while. One of the things I noticed while walking around was how many gold enhancements there were on the old buildings and fixtures. Much of this was simply small gold leaf effects, but every once in a while there would be a quantity of golf being used (or at least it looked like gold). One of the buildings was the Manhattan Municipal Building. The sunlight glistened off of the building like a beacon, and made me think about how gold has such an unusual quality.
Have you ever noticed how glossy gold can be? Untarnished silver and even some other polished metals can have a mirrored surface, but none of them glow in the matter that gold does. This quality, along with its rarity, has made it a most sought after mineral in the world. Countries have been storing it for years, while the everyday individuals can purchase it on their one. You can buy gold online, at market dealers, or even at your local coin, gold, and stamps shops. While I don’t think you’ll ever buy enough to coat the roof of your house with gold leaf like some of the buildings I’ve seen in New York City, you can at least enjoy the reflective quality of the metal in your own home.
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