Trading cards are awesome.*
They look cool, you can play games with some of them, they're fun to collect and trade, and sometimes they can be worth a lot of cash.
However, paper isn't worth much by itself, and it's easy to create forgeries of cards.
* The leading grading company PSA reported over $200M+ in fraudulent TCGs in 2025, with potential fraud over $1B+.
Gold has a floor price.
All collectibles have a top, but this one has a floor. Unlike paper, there's an established floor price for gold, because it is a globally-traded commodity.
That's why we say they can never go to zero, because the gold in every bill will always be worth its weight. And the price of gold tends to go in one direction - up.
Rug pulls become impossible, and a market collapse of one IP doesn't tank the value of your collection overnight. It's gold.
Famous NFT project "Bored Ape Yacht Club" has seen values decline over 90%.
Spared no expense
Secure by design.
Our mint developed proprietary & patented tech that fused two secretive and regulated industries together in one: real money printers that make fiat currency, and atomic layer deposition (ALD) chambers from the semi-conductor industry. The barrier to entry here is an enormous capital sum, intense regulatory clearing, highly specialized engineers, and more.
The result is an industry-first: a class of collectible that has never been successfully counterfeited. It has the same protections as the Swiss Franc, as well as dual-factor serialization and a FIPS-compliant Certificate of Authenticity.
Developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the US Government, the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) set a high bar for document security.
This is the Aurum®.
We didn’t invent it, but we sure do love it and believe it’s going to change the game. Part sound money, part collectible, and imbued with security only found in real-world currencies.
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A bold denomination that shows how much 999 pure 24-karat gold is in the bill, measured in milligrams.
Massively intricate golden linework, guillochés, and other trade secret design elements create nigh insurmountable hurdles for bad actors.
Indica designed to evoke curiosity and convey deeper meaning in the art. The closer you look, the more you'll see.
A bold denomination that shows how much 999 pure 24-karat gold is in the bill, measured in milligrams.
Massively intricate golden linework, guillochés, and other trade secret design elements create nigh insurmountable hurdles for bad actors.
Indica designed to evoke curiosity and convey deeper meaning in the art. The closer you look, the more you'll see.
It’s not just a collectible
This is sound money, too.
Sound money is a form of currency that holds its value over time. For thousands of years, the ultimate form of sound money has been precious metals like gold and silver.
By contrast, fiat currency like the dollar is designed to constantly lose value through inflation. As it loses value, it takes more dollars to buy things, which means the prices for things goes up.
The price of gold goes up over time.
Because the dollar goes down in value over time, the price of harder assets like gold tends to go up over time. See for yourself — this chart shows the price of gold as measured in dollars since 1968 to now.
The value of a dollar goes down over time.
This shows the purchasing power of the dollar since 1926. It loses value on purpose, year after year.
Convert dollars to something better
A better class of collectible.
With a floor value pegged to the globally traded precious metal commodity, Aurums can literally never go to $0 in value. They help offset the inflationary effects of fiat currency, and they’re sound money in their own right.
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FAQ
These aren’t NFTs or JPGs on the internet. We make real, physical, usable products printed with 999 pure 24-karat gold with the same anti-counterfeiting tech you’d find in the most widely circulated currencies on the planet.
Shipped discretely right to your door.
In short, yes. Gold has historically been money for basically all of human history.
But there’s nuance with modern governments. Despite sharing a similar form factor, boldly designed denominations, and intricate security features, MetalMark Aurum are not federally-recognized legal tender, and we’re proud of that. The US government officially only recognizes its own fiat currency it created — the dollar — as legal tender, with some gold coins also recognized.
But being federal legal tender just means that’s what the government accepts for paying taxes and other debts. It has no bearing on what you do privately.
Our gold cash has trading, market, and intrinsic value tied to the underlying commodity it contains. There is no federal law preventing any citizen from voluntarily conducting transactions in gold. Or bagels, for that matter.
The flexible polymer protecting our bills has been engineered to last virtually indefinitely, and won’t yellow or crack with time.
The gold in each bill is naturally resistant to oxidation, and, coupled with the polymer, will never rust, tarnish, or discolor. You can expect each to remain like new even after years of storage or exposure to air.
Collect them, hang them on your wall, give them as gifts, and even sell them as they grow in value.
They’re collectibles with a precious metal floor price.
In a word, inflation. The prices of things goes up over time, making the dollars in your pocket worth less over time. Stuff used to be $5 and now it’s $10. This has been the case for our grandparents & parents, it is the case for us, and it may also be the case for our children. It is the current economic reality of fiat currency.
Gold gets priced in fiat currency, and the price of gold generally goes up over time as a result, because the value of the dollar is forever going down. If you have gold in your pocket, then historically over time, that gold has minimally preserved its value, if not outright increasing its value.
You’d want gold in your pocket instead of paper, because historically, gold goes up and dollars go down.
Metalmark is a family of butterflies, so named due to the metallic markings found on their wings. We find inspiration not only in the surface beauty of these butterflies, but more deeply in their transformative journey to achieve that beauty.
With MetalMark, we’re making beautiful, intrinsically valuable collectible assets to help transform the functional nature of money, as well as expand what fractional gold can be.
Space is limited, but we’re always on the lookout for amazing artists and brands to help push the boundaries of what fractional gold can be. Drop us a line at partner@mtlmrk.com.
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