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The RAE GOLD BAR is the Genesis NFT from New York Street Artist RAE, aka RAE BK. These polished, rotating, gold bullions are debossed with the signature image and text RAE uses for his street stickers. Maybe you’ve come across one? After all, RAE has spent over a decade installing his public works in the form of found-object sculptures, stickers, paste-ups and spray-painted figures on the streets of New York City and beyond. Add to this, RAE is also a ‘street miner'; extracting ‘nuggets’ in the form of wood pieces, plastics parts and metal scraps from the crevices of the urban landscape, turning them into finished works of art. This concept has now made its way to the NFT landscape in the form of the RAE GOLD BAR. ‘Lost jewelry’ such as a hoop earring found in the curb, a ring retrieved from a sewer grate, a gold necklace with a broken clasp—they’ve all been ‘street mined’ by RAE, melted down and poured into the RAE GOLD BAR. Just twenty of these lustrous ingots exist. The holders of the RAE GOLD BAR will be granted the option to mint a free companion ‘nugget’ from the next batch of materials RAE ‘street mines’. Crushed aluminum cans, copper pipes and steel shopping carts are just some of the possibilities RAE might collect on one of his future expeditions. Also, as a gold bar holder you will gain VIP access to future RAE screen-print releases, merchandise drops as well as special gifts and events.