Gold is a material named with silver and precious things and counted in named pieces (1 Nephi 2:4; Alma 11:5). Lehi left Jerusalem, abandoning “his gold, and his silver, and his precious things” when he departed into the wilderness (1 Nephi 2:4). His sons later gathered “our gold, and our silver, and our precious things” and offered them to Laban for the brass plates (1 Nephi 3:22; 1 Nephi 3:24).
Nephi’s group found “all manner of ore, both of gold, and of silver, and of copper” in the land of promise (1 Nephi 18:25). Nephi taught his people to work gold among iron, copper, brass, steel, silver, and precious ores “which were in great abundance” (2 Nephi 5:15). Laban’s sword had a hilt “of pure gold” (1 Nephi 4:9).
Under the judges, a senine of gold was a judge’s wage for a day, equal to a senum of silver (Alma 11:3). The named pieces of gold were “a senine of gold, a seon of gold, a shum of gold, and a limnah of gold” (Alma 11:5). A seon was twice a senine, and a shum was twice a seon (Alma 11:8-9).