The “Essay on Gold” provides the history of the discovery of many gold deposits, shows the conditions for their exploitation, and talks about the minting of coins from gold from specific deposits. The “Essay on Gold” makes an attempt to consistently present the most important stages and individual episodes in the development of gold coin circulation in different countries, which took place against the backdrop of the discovery of gold deposits. The selected sections are unequal in volume and content, since different historical material has been preserved about different periods of development and regions in literary works, written monuments and material culture.