Natural Citrine
the merchant’s stone
An honest distinction almost nobody makes: most citrine sold today is amethyst turned gold in an oven. Stones like this one left the ground already golden — natural citrine, the rarer thing by far. The old trade roads called it the merchant’s stone and kept it close, for the warmth it seems to hold.
“Keep it in the till, and gold will call to gold.”Merchants’ lore · the old trade roads