{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.gold-certificate","code":"thing-q4193546","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q4193546/","name":"gold certificate","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.OBJ"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A gold certificate is a document issued by a government, bank or other custodian that evidences ownership of gold held on deposit instead of physically held by its owner, with ownership and redemption rights determined by its terms.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise a gold certificate, assess its physical and documentary state, and determine what evidence is needed before treating it as a claim involving gold.","scope":{"in":["Physical certificates identified as evidencing ownership of gold held on deposit are included.","Issuer, series, serial identifiers, inscriptions, and document format are included.","Stated gold quantity, denomination, backing arrangement, and referenced terms are included.","Evidence of authenticity, issue, cancellation, and association with issuer records is included.","Physical condition and provenance affecting identification or handling are included.","Evidence needed to establish present transfer or redemption eligibility is included."],"out":["Gold bars, coins, or other underlying metal as physical assets","Issuer organisations, custodians, and vault operations as independently modelled entities","Gold assay reports that only certify composition or purity","Gold exchange-traded securities and account balances without a certificate object","General monetary systems, gold standards, and bullion markets","Independent legal determinations of ownership or enforceability"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Its text or associated issue records identify its function as evidence of gold ownership; gold-linked obligations or gold-coloured decoration alone are insufficient.","It evidences ownership of gold rather than being the gold asset itself.","A document reporting only a sample's fineness or assay result is an assay certificate unless additional evidence establishes a gold ownership function.","A stated gold denomination or historical payment promise must be distinguished from evidence of present redemption eligibility.","An original issued certificate must be distinguished from a specimen, replica, reproduction, or cancelled example, even when their designs match."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"certificate-identity-and-boundary","name":"Certificate identity and boundary","description":"Establishes which meaning of gold certificate applies and identifies the issue represented by the object.","layers":[{"id":"documentary-function","name":"Documentary function","description":"Separates monetary, ownership, and claim functions from neighbouring certificate types.","findings":[{"id":"gold-relationship-test","name":"Gold relationship test","description":"Record the wording and contextual evidence that make this a gold certificate rather than an assay report or decorative document.","questions":[{"text":"What exact wording identifies gold ownership, a gold claim, or gold-related monetary value as the document's function?","id":"gold-relationship-test-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Does the document evidence a gold relationship beyond merely reporting purity, grading, or inspection?","id":"gold-relationship-test-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"issue-and-object-identity","name":"Issue and object identity","description":"Connects the individual certificate to an issuer and distinguishable issuance.","findings":[{"id":"issuer-series-and-identifiers","name":"Issuer, series, and identifiers","description":"Capture issue-level identity separately from the serial and other identifiers of the individual object.","questions":[{"text":"Which issuer, date, series, denomination, and jurisdiction are stated or supported by issue records?","id":"issuer-series-and-identifiers-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which serial numbers, signatures, seals, or plate identifiers distinguish this object within that issue?","id":"issuer-series-and-identifiers-q02","kind":"definition"}]}]}]},{"id":"represented-gold-and-claim","name":"Represented gold and claim","description":"Describes what the certificate says it represents and how that assertion relates to underlying gold.","layers":[{"id":"quantity-and-denomination","name":"Quantity and denomination","description":"Preserves the units and wording of the stated value or metal entitlement.","findings":[{"id":"stated-gold-basis","name":"Stated gold basis","description":"Record metal quantity, fineness, and monetary denomination independently without assuming a conversion between them.","questions":[{"text":"Does the certificate state a gold mass, a monetary amount, or both, and in which exact units?","id":"stated-gold-basis-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Does the stated gold quantity refer to fine gold or gross metal, and where is any fineness or conversion basis specified?","id":"stated-gold-basis-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"backing-and-entitlement","name":"Backing and entitlement","description":"Examines the asserted connection between the document, its holder, and gold holdings.","findings":[{"id":"claim-to-holdings-link","name":"Claim-to-holdings link","description":"Distinguish identified metal, pooled backing, and unspecified promises while recording who is represented as entitled.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence links this certificate to identified bars, pooled holdings, or another stated backing arrangement?","id":"claim-to-holdings-link-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Whom do the certificate and associated records identify as entitled, and what role do possession, registration, or endorsement play?","id":"claim-to-holdings-link-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"authenticity-and-material-evidence","name":"Authenticity and material evidence","description":"Assesses whether the object matches its claimed issue and whether physical changes affect interpretation.","layers":[{"id":"issue-specific-authentication","name":"Issue-specific authentication","description":"Evaluates features against references appropriate to the claimed issuance.","findings":[{"id":"design-and-record-consistency","name":"Design and record consistency","description":"Record observed agreement and discrepancies in printing, substrate, identifiers, and issuer records without treating appearance alone as proof.","questions":[{"text":"Which trusted issue references support the observed substrate, printing, signatures, seals, and security features?","id":"design-and-record-consistency-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Do identifiers and design details agree with the claimed issue, and what discrepancies require specialist examination?","id":"design-and-record-consistency-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"condition-and-interventions","name":"Condition and interventions","description":"Documents damage, repair, and markings that affect identification or interpretation.","findings":[{"id":"claim-bearing-surface-condition","name":"Claim-bearing surface condition","description":"Give particular attention to alterations or losses involving denomination, holder name, serial number, endorsements, and cancellation marks.","questions":[{"text":"Which identifiers or claim-bearing passages are obscured, missing, overwritten, repaired, or otherwise altered?","id":"claim-bearing-surface-condition-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What handling and storage measures will preserve fragile areas and avoid disturbing possible cancellation or alteration evidence?","id":"claim-bearing-surface-condition-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"lifecycle-and-permitted-actions","name":"Lifecycle and permitted actions","description":"Separates historical issuance from present status and establishes the evidence required for proposed actions.","layers":[{"id":"issue-to-retirement-history","name":"Issue-to-retirement history","description":"Tracks evidence of issuance, circulation, transfer, redemption, cancellation, or specimen status.","findings":[{"id":"documented-lifecycle-state","name":"Documented lifecycle state","description":"Reconcile physical markings with external records and preserve contradictions as unresolved evidence.","questions":[{"text":"What markings or records establish whether this object was issued, retained as a specimen, redeemed, cancelled, or reproduced?","id":"documented-lifecycle-state-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does the documented custody or transfer history contain gaps that affect identity or the asserted holder relationship?","id":"documented-lifecycle-state-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"present-transfer-and-redemption","name":"Present transfer and redemption","description":"Identifies current evidence and procedural requirements relevant to using the certificate.","findings":[{"id":"action-eligibility-evidence","name":"Action eligibility evidence","description":"Assess proposed actions using dated, issue-specific evidence and distinguish documentary ownership from entitlement to gold.","questions":[{"text":"Which current issuer terms, authoritative records, or applicable rules support or limit transfer or redemption of this particular issue?","id":"action-eligibility-evidence-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Before a proposed transfer or redemption inquiry, what holder verification, registration, endorsement, or original-document requirements must be established?","id":"action-eligibility-evidence-q02","kind":"action"},{"text":"Would the proposed transaction transfer the physical collectible, an associated gold claim, or both according to the available evidence?","id":"action-eligibility-evidence-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of gold certificate this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of gold certificate this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-identifiers","name":"Identifiers and schemes","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of gold certificate this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-identifiers-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of gold certificate this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of gold certificate this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of gold certificate this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of gold certificate this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain what a gold certificate is and how its rights depend on the issuer's terms.","Verify a certificate's authenticity with the issuer when authorized by its holder."],"mustNot":["Forge, alter or duplicate a gold certificate.","Present a historical or collectible certificate as redeemable when it is not.","Advise a person to buy or sell gold certificates as an investment.","Transfer a certificate without the holder's instruction."],"requiresHuman":["Redeeming or transferring a certificate.","Valuing a certificate for sale or inheritance."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Holders depend on the custodian really holding the gold, so fraud harms savers.","Collectors can be misled about value and redeemability."],"affectedParties":["Certificate holders","Collectors","Heirs"]},"owners":{"steward":"The holder named or bearing it; the issuing government, bank or custodian answers for redemption.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Custodian's register of certificate holders"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q65929831","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.gold-certificate","Wikidata: Q4193546 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4193546)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["Certificate function: monetary certificate | ownership certificate | claim certificate | other documented function | unresolved","Issuer and issue identity: issuing entity, jurisdiction, series, issue date, and supporting issue record","Certificate identifiers: transcribed serial number, certificate number, plate identifiers, or explicitly absent identifiers","Stated gold quantity and fineness: quantity in the inscribed unit, such as grams or troy ounces; fineness in the stated convention; absent or unresolved","Face denomination: numeric amount and named currency or monetary unit, with issue context; absent if not denominated","Stated backing or allocation relationship: identified gold items | pooled gold | unspecified gold backing | no backing statement | unresolved","Named holder and entitlement relationship: named person or entity, bearer wording, registry reference, or unresolved relationship","Authenticity assessment: unexamined | evidence consistent with issue | discrepancies found | independently authenticated | unresolved","Issue and cancellation state: issued | specimen | cancelled | redeemed according to records | reproduction | unresolved","Present claim status: not investigated | supported by current evidence | disputed | historical only according to evidence | unresolved","Physical condition: observed wear, tears, losses, stains, fading, repairs, alterations, and legibility"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["A printed document or note naming gold, a quantity or value, and the issuer.","Historical United States issues are notes with gold or orange ink."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Transcribe and compare inscriptions, identifiers, and design details against records for the claimed issue.","Trace the certificate to issuer, holder, custodian, or cancellation records where available.","Distinguish a stated gold promise from independently supported backing and present claim status.","Identify evidence gaps that require issuer clarification, specialist authentication, or jurisdiction-specific review.","Prepare an evidence-based transfer or redemption inquiry using the certificate's documented terms.","Document condition and select handling or storage measures that preserve claim-bearing text and authentication features."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Custodian failure or fraud can leave holders with nothing.","Forgeries circulate among collectors."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["The Gold Reserve Act of 1934, enacted by the United States Congress, governs aspects of United States monetary gold and gold certificates and is relevant to interpreting historical federal issues."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Gold certificates are encountered in historical monetary collections, financial archives and arrangements documenting gold held by a custodian.","They provide documentary evidence of a stated gold-related entitlement whose meaning depends on the issuer, date and contractual terms.","Historical certificates may retain collectible significance after their original redemption rights have ended."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q4193546: gold certificate","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4193546","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Gold certificate (United States)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_certificate_%28United_States%29","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Does the registry intend gold certificate to cover both historical monetary certificates and private gold ownership or claim certificates?","Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept or own its monetary-instrument aspects?","Should electronic certificates fall within this PHY.OBJ entry, or should they be related through a separate information-object model?","Which authoritative issue catalogues, issuer records, and authentication references can support each included certificate family?","For each issue family, what dated evidence establishes present backing, holder entitlement, transfer conditions, and redemption status?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q4193546/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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