Gold Bar

A Gold Bar is the next step of the way of gold. After being dug up in the form of gold nuggets and being exchanged to coins at a mint, the gold bars are created by melting down the nuggets and casting the gold into this new form.

Gold bars have the advantage of easy storage and are also a lot harder to steal, especially due to their weight. Gold bars are not only an easy storage form for coin material, but also unlike nuggets a good way to pay bigger transactions, as the worth of a gold bar is fixed. It can be used to store wealth as well(especially by the government). Of course it is alway possible to return a gold bar to the mint in exchange for its worth in coins.

Exchange Rates

 * Cynthia at the Royal Mint in Ultima VII will exchange every gold bar for 100 gold coins.
 * Bucia in Moonshade in Ultima VII Part Two will exchange each gold bar for 400 gold coins.

Trivia

 * Gold bars in Britannia have the symbol of the Ankh minted onto them (as seen in Ultima VII Part Two). This is not unlike real-life gold bars, which also have symbols minted into them.
 * The corrupt pikemen in the Bull Tower want a gold bar for setting Captain Hawk free, thus the need to loot the ruined mint, as gold bars are only encountered later in the game.