During instances of arguably gold undervaluation time spans, this heavy inert valuable metal can simultaneously offer its proprietors a manner to not best protect but also boom wealth through prudent gold possession and funding portfolio gold allocation. In the almost 4,000-year-old Code of Hammurabi, the world's viable first written code of laws, the phrase mene' turned into a term used to indicate the load of gold to be paid to clear up civil conflicts or resolve crimes committed. Thus a specific amount of gold (or silver) is perhaps the earliest written phrase for money itself.