and when a family cannot afford a grave marker in Victorian times, when mourning was an absolute and whole-hearted endeavor, it speaks so much.Then, yet to disregard teams of horses with plumes, parades of people and special clothing
That much solid gold is currently worth well north of $30,000. So instead, Olympic golds are silver with a generous six-or-more grams of gold plated onto it, to make sure that even if the medal-winner insists on wearing the thing around all day, it won't wear through the plating.)...