Gold Bar

A gold bar is the typical storage form of large sums of gold.

Description
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 collected 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 unlike nuggets, are a good way to pay for larger transactions, as the worth of a gold bar is fixed. It can be used to store wealth as well - especially by the treasury of the government.

Of course it is always 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).
 * 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.