An intrepid investigator, James Anderson, has researched what gold cost in terms of 120 currencies during the last 14 years.

His research shows that gold beat all paper currencies by at least 133 percent and, at most, by nearly 90,000 percent.

Using gold’s price at the dawn of Y2K vs. New Year’s Day 2014, he chronicled gold’s gain in each of these 120 currencies.

The best currencies of the new Millennium — those in Switzerland and the Czech Republic — lost 57 percent of their value to gold during the last 14 years.

Here are the 10 best currencies of the new century, and gold’s performance compared with. the best paper money the world has to offer.

The Top 10 Currencies, 2000-2014, in Gold Terms

Strongest Currencies	Gold Price on Jan. 1, 2000	Gold Price on Jan. 1, 2014	Gold’s Gain
Czech koruna	10,309	23,980	+133%
Swiss franc	459.07	1076.55	+135%
Lithuanian litas	1,146	3,029	+164%
Cayman dollar	3261.36	988.64	+174%
Croatian kuna	2,189	6,680	+205%
The Euro	286.48	877.27	+206%
Chinese yuan	2384.5	7296.4	+206%
Australian dollar	440.23	1352.63	+207%
Canadian dollar	416.42	1280.65	+208%
Danish krone	2,126	6,544	+208%

By comparison, gold is up 319 percent in terms of the U.S. dollar during the same 14 years.

And this is using gold’s depressed price of $1,205 on Jan. 1, 2014. The worst currencies saw gold gains of 30,000 percent or more: 88,584 percent for the Congolese franc, 65,789 percent for the Burmese kyat, 33,787 percent for the Liberian dollar.

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