Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20150703155005/@comment-25926288-20150703230430

To those wonder why no scaly gold skin......She is not in the EF, is she? Ok, then.

Rumple is only golden or grey in the EF, not in Storybrooke. Plus, Zoso showed that you can change your skin whenever you choose to. He had is normal skin as the begger and then golden.