Sigh, once again the realists have to try to inject some form of 'our world's reality' into a fantasy game...
Maybe gold in Dom is as common as dirt... who's to say, who's to say...
Certainly there were civilizations in our world that didn't value gold as highly as the europeans, mostly because of its availabililty...
Heh, when will you all learn that trying to impose your standards on a work of fiction will only result in lost sleep and probably lost hair