Myths & mysteries
Religious demand for gold leaf inflated metal markets
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Painting hundreds of halos requires a lot of raw capital. The insatiable demand for extremely thin, pounded sheets of precious metals to adorn altarpieces literally drove up the price of gold bullion across European financial exchanges during the Renaissance.
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