Agree 💯 with all you said here

Was generalizing when I said gold won - should have said ‘gold won the game until central banks were invented’

When society learned how to make paper IOUs out of it, and ppl trusted that, was beginning of end for gold

Gold is basically fiat now because of this financialization

IOW the inception of central banks destroyed the beauty and elegance of metal coinage

Appreciate all the information you’ve posted here I’ll dig into it!