[justshutupandtakeit]

The dollar and the pound for two.

[bvw]

Oh? If I bought an ounce of gold in 1970, and took that same purchase price amount in US dollars, keeping those dollars in a regular federally insured savings account -- which would be more money today?

Gold has been exchangeable longer and in more places than the US dollar or British pound. I'm somewhat sure (with some periods of exception, like from when FDR froze the gold window until when Nixon busted it) that gold has been the better or nearly equivalent *store* of value, as dollars or pounds kept in the most reliably quickly-liquid stores.