More than 270, 000 artefacts (Chinese ceramics, religious objects, jewellery, gold coins, pottery etc) were salvaged from the wreck, giving the discovery exceptional historical value.
But most of the population stash their savings, if they even have any, in cash, jewellery and gold and never dream of settling a bill with an electronic transfer.
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The glittering burial hoard from Mycenae gold cups, jewellery, bronze swords with gold-plated hilts and hundreds of ornaments is still a crowd-puller at the Athens archaeological museum.
Ashford councillor Harriet Yeo said items stolen from her Kingsnorth home on Sunday included gold jewellery.
If it is a national crisis I may give in my gold jewellery but not otherwise.
Many Indians buy gold jewellery and coins to protect the value of their money in the face of inflation.
An auction of Sir Jimmy Savile's possessions, including his tracksuits and gold jewellery, is to be held in Leeds this summer.
Its impact was clearly visible in Italy at Vicenzaoro, the world's largest gold jewellery trade fair, which ended on January 18th.
Belgrave Road is known as the Golden Mile because of the high concentration of shops in the area selling gold jewellery.
Known for his gold jewellery, sideburns and deerstalker hats, McCririck has covered betting for 31 years, first on ITV then Channel 4.
IECO, and nearby Sisma, to dominate their business, supplying about 80% of the total world market for machinery for making gold jewellery.
Most of this feeds demand for gold jewellery in rural India, where the only other investment options are bank deposits and land.
Best known for his gold jewellery, sideburns and omnipresent deerstalker, McCririck appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and Ultimate Big Brother five years later.
There is also fabulous, sculptural gold jewellery from Colombia and Panama and vivid red woven and embroidered Peruvian fabric from the start of the first millennium.
In gold jewellery, leather and tiles, likewise, Italy has hung on to the most lucrative part of the market, even as others have conquered its lower end.
And, besides having sentimental or artistic value, gold jewellery is also important as one of the few liquid assets that Indian women hold in their own right.
Stav Jewelry, the studio of husband and wife designers Dalia and Eyal Stav, sells handcrafted jewellery made of gold, silver, ceramic and precious and semi-precious stones, as well as locally-made leather handbags.
Such measures are a far cry from 1997, when rather than urging households to spend, governments in Asia begged them to hand over their gold jewellery to be melted down to bolster official reserves.
Dr Kevin Leahy is an archaeologist from Scunthorpe who worked as an advisor on the excavation of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold jewellery which was discovered by a metal detectorist in a farmer's field in July 2009.
This leaves jewellery demand, exposing gold to the whims of fashion.
Buying by investors has more than made up for a slump in gold-jewellery purchases in key markets, such as India and Turkey, where higher prices and wilting exchange rates have crushed demand.
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Since 2007 Galantas Gold Corporation, a Canadian firm, has been working what is currently Britain's only gold-producing mine at Omagh, in Northern Ireland, shipping the ore to Canada and running a small gold-jewellery operation.
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Though consumption of gold for jewellery in India and the Middle East, both large consumers of the yellow metal, has fallen during the past three years, demand from investors is likely to rise as international tensions continue.
Mrs Rodgers also discovered some of her jewellery was missing, including gold rings, earrings, chains and a rectangular pendant given to her by her late husband, Roy, on their 50th wedding anniversary.
The married women wore silver jewellery, white wimples, and gold teeth.
The country is already the largest market for jewellery after America, and for gold after India, and is gaining fast on both leaders.
Apart from a rise in demand for jewellery, the rise in the price of gold may, at the margin, reflect demand for real, hard assets, as opposed to the paper sort.
There are inlaid camel-head benches and painted peacock-and-lion chairs from Rajasthan, a table made from a traditional Indian four-poster bed decorated with embroidered cloth of gold, Hindu devotional paintings, showcases housing exquisite jewellery and carved peasant objects.
Jewellery shops remain bustling and Bhombhal, unbothered by the government's decision to raise the import duty on gold.
Her parents said a gold zigzag bracelet and blue topaz ring found on the body pulled from the river were similar to jewellery owned by their daughter.
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