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Actually you can make gold from lead.
You can in theory, via high energy electron bombardment, change the protons without a nucleus of led into neutrons by inducing electron capture. Displacing your electron configurations and all, I'd imagine it is very possible to create a very unstable isotope of the next few element down from lead. Which you'd have to reduce by neutron emission/fission. And keep repeating the process until you are left with gold.