Gold will be around, gold will be money when the dollar and the euro and the yuan and the ringgit are mere memories.
- Richard Russell
Fellow eSTEEMed,
Ever since the discovery of gold, everyone has always wanted some of it due to its beauty and its value. Platinum too didn’t lose out of the love for beauty; it is loved for its great value and is very rare.
Gold and Platinum are both metals, malleable and ductile and are unreactive in their pure states to be destroyed or tarnished. So one can say, they’ll last forever!
People have found different uses for these precious metals but I’ll be writing on the aspect of its usage as an investment and yet as a jewellery.
Mene 24 karat Gold and Plantinum
Mene, a jewellery company, produces jewelleries that are totally pure, 100% (24 karat) of either Gold or Platinum. The cause of this endeavour was the abundant availability of less pure, 10-75% (10-18 karat) jewelleries of gold or platinum combined with other metals to form compounds called alloys.
Though the less pure alloys can be harder and do not reshape as pure gold, be sure mene gold does not lose lustre due to reactions (oxidations or allergies or microbes).
Source Of Gold and Platinum
The gold and platinum used for this endeavour are ethically sourced through mining of that are environmental friendly or bought from miners that follow same ethics. So there is no issue of “blood gold” or “conflict gold”.
How do you get a Menē Jewellery
Jewelleries ( rings, bracelets, cuffs and necklaces) of mene to be bought are pre ordered after opening an account with them and the following payments can be used: credit card, PayPal, mene credit and Bitcoin. So you can use your Steem and SBD to buy some mene jewellery. Read on and you’ll get to know how you can get to buy some mene jewellery almost for free, though that’s through mene credit.
The Value of Menē Gold
Mene gold and platinum jewellery are valued by gram weight.
Menē Daily Precious Metal Value – This is the real-time value of the pure gold and platinum within each jewelry item. This value becomes yours upon purchase and serves as accessible savings for the future. This value changes daily with the precious metal markets and is calculated by multiplying the pure gold weight by the price of gold or platinum per gram.
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Other Facts Worthy to be Known
Yes, I mentioned above that one can get some jewellery almost for free. This works n form of a referral program. Each referral gets you some mene credit on their first purchase and on their subsequent purchases but it’s on a limited time span.
When someone creates a Menē account through your referral link and makes their first purchase, you receive $50 in Menē Credit. You will also receive $10 in Menē Credit for each of their subsequent purchases for 18 months.
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•You can return your mene jewellery.
•You can purchase mene gift cards.
•You can change your mene jewellery.
•You can pay for your mene jewellery in instalments.
•Mene jewelleries are manufactured in Manhattan and New Jersey.
Wearable wealth and its importance to the world
Wearable wealth has been a trend since early times as a show for opulence and prestige. Jewelleries are the worn and those of great value are wealth. In the early times, before the advent of coins, pure gold chains were used as currency¹. So what is wealth if you can’t flaunt it? Well, flaunting it responsibly.
Mene jewelleries give the opportunity to have your wealth/investment with you at all times. You wear it and know for sure your investment is safe with you and there won’t be the need to worry much about it’s security if it was at home.
And from the words of a co-founder of Menē, Diana Widmaier Picasso, jewelleries are meant to last forever and not to be treated as trash².
How mene differentiates from the jewellery industry
Did you know?
For every gram of gold or platinum on earth, there are 60 grams of silver, 5000 grams of sapphire, and 400000 grams of diamond³.
This tells us that gold and platinum are truly rare compared to diamonds and sapphires but diamonds and sapphires that are made of elements that are so abundant have so much value attached to them.
Mene jewelleries give you pure metals of true value whose value won’t be changed as they are sold in their weights. In the future, it will be sold at the same value it was purchased or even at an increased value.
I hope jewellery consumers get to know more of this fact and stop the “diamond rush” and go for something rare and of greater value, meme gold and platinum.
Conclusion
Mene provides jewelleries of pure gold or platinum that appreciates over time and cannot tarnish, a wearable wealth and an investment. The value of these jewelleries is transparent as they are sold by their gram weight. They can be shipped to about 90 countries but fellow Nigerians, our beloved country wasn’t listed. I hope it gets on the list soon so we can start ordering our mene 24 karat gold.
References
Gold Jewellery’s Real Advatage
Mene; About and Customer Service.
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