Overall, Cortez is positive on advocacy efforts for sound money, as well as on gold and silver prices. "I think we're seeing that sound money — gold and silver — is having a renaissance right ...

Precious metals experts predict a bullish year for gold and silver, citing geopolitical tensions and increasing demand as key drivers.

She said psalm extracts were known from other seal matrices and Mr Cortez had cited the discovery of a 13th Century medieval silver seal matrix in Shropshire in 2006 as "a good parallel".