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Silver is meant to be used against all unnatural beings (demons, witches), while iron kills the supernatural (fae).

Gold is less specific, but it's had holy context for ages. On the other hand, it eventually came to symbolize greed and corruption, but I've never seen it have anything like silver or cold iron does.

Obviously, it's not consistent across time and religions though.

Well, I've seen it in Hellboy (1st movie) where his bullets are a mix of holy water, garlic and some metal and in Constatine (Keanu Reeves ftw) uses a golden shotgun with "holy bullets", which I assume gold is also involved.

Oh, and a golden knuckle duster to punch a demon.

I am just going to put gold in as one of the holy metal in my work.

Of course unlike silver which never can be tarnished, gold can also be a symbol of evil/ greed... gold is special as it dances both ways I guess.

Tbh, I'd expect almost all magic to outweigh the innate properties of something. Maybe silver/gold could be strong enough to burn or purify a zombie or something, but a vampire would be fine decorating themselves in fine jewelry, especially if they wanted to make a mockery of the holy.

Oh yeah, vampires are rich af.

That reminded me of the Dracula movie where the protag is a vampire and his weakness? Shiny silver.

Bro if I'm a 400 years old vampire and still poor af, I'd kill myself using tofu

The meme I know said 200 yo and still poor? Walk into the sun, man.

You gave yourself an extra 200 years?

Good point xD