What currency has survived history?
The yearly wages that a Roman soldier was paid in gold, and the bread he could feed his family with on that gold, today he could buy the same amount of bread today to feed his family for this year.
What country's currency has been so consistent even in the hard times?
What currency has been recognized throughout man's history?
What country is there that does not hold gold or would like to hold it in their vaults?
These metals not only hold value because they are recognized by all as means of trade, and as a show of wealth as in gold jewelry or a platinum-plated car but also because of their importance in industrial use, chemical properties that we call these metals Nobel.
Gold, when it was found by the first man, he knew he had found something valuable, and useful, something he could trade for bread, use as decoration and show of his importance, and was also useful in making tools, ever since then, throughout history man has been fighting to get his hands on these metals, is that gold nugget the caveman found any less valuable today? His greatest grandson today could feed his family on with that same gold nugget.
I will keep my gold buried, it is not an investment for me, it is security.
I know it will always hold value and will buy bread no matter what the future holds.
Gold can be used as investments just like a stock or other commodities, but just like any of those, it is not without risk.
Gold is useful as a currency, as a commodity for trade, to back a country's wealth, a very industrial important commodity, important for its chemical properties, and uses in medicines, it will never be worthless like all of the other currency's used throughout the history of man.