World’s rarest piece of gold is so valuable experts are ‘scared to reveal true price’ due to security concerns
THE RAREST piece of gold in the world has been analysed by scientists and they will no longer reveal its price. Known as the Ram’s Horn, scientists have been reluctant to conduct tests on the precious wire gold artefact until now. This is the rarest piece of gold in the world The Ram’s Horn was found in 1887 in a goldmine in Colorado. It is roughly 4.7 inches tall, weighs roughly half a pound and is so delicate that it has naturally split into three tendrils. At the time of its discovery, the gold horn was valued at around £125 by weight—or about £3,550 in today’s currency. However, experts will no longer speculate on its current value due to security concerns . The artefact was found at a goldmine in Colorado John Rakovan, a mineralogist at Miami University, could only tell National Geographic that the object was worth “a very pretty penny.” -ADVERTISEMENT- Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory recently used a half-mile-lon...