Indeed. Also one thing that I've noticed is that gold as a storage of value becomes more and more liquid. It's much easier to resell the gold quickly at least in the German market in the recent years. Thus the entire process became less regulated not that long ago, so now one can resell a gold bullion by basically posting an offer on local message boards.
Before the issue of the low liquidity of this precious metal was scaring many people of.
Thanks for your input :)