These Facts About Gold imply that its also a symbols of wealth

Here's another fact about gold
Gold has been prized by people since the earliest times for making statues and icons and also for jewelry to adorn their bodies.

Intricately sculptured art objects and adornment jewelry have been uncovered in the Sumerian royal Tombs in southern Iraq and the tombs of Egyptian kings.

Significant buildings and religious temples and statues have been covered with thinly beaten sheets of gold. Due to its rarity, gold has long been considered a symbol of the wealth and power of its possessor.