And if you look at the inflation-adjusted graph, you'll see that it was up to 2600 dollars if you adjust for inflation ("2024 dollars"), which was already a pretty fancy suit, and within three years it had dropped by 40% before gradually settling to a low of 400–600 "2024 dollars" from 01998 to 02004. As I said, there's a lot of short-term volatility, though not as much as Bitcoin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_as_an_investment#/media/F...