| From: Black Blade | 4/26/2023 12:56:02 AM | | | | | | Central banks are leading a revolt against the US dollar and shifting to gold at a record pace, market expert says
Story by fdemott@insider.com (Filip De Mott) • 6h ago
- Central banks are turning away from the US dollar and shifting to gold, Ruchir Sharma wrote.
- Central banks account for a record 33% of monthly global demand for gold, he said in the FT.
- "Thus the oldest and most traditional of assets, gold, is now a vehicle of central bank revolt against the dollar."
The anti-dollar drive spearheaded by Asia has spread to Europe, with France growing sour on the greenback's dominance. Here are 6 rising threats to the buck's supremacy of global trade.
- The dollar's supremacy in global trade faces fresh challenges as several countries float plans to use local currencies in commerce.
- Russia and Iran are working to create a gold-backed stablecoin, while France has pursued a trade deal with China in yuan.
- Here are 6 rising challenges to the greenback's dominance of international trade and investment flows.
The dollar's dominance of global trade and investment flows is facing a slew of new threats as more and more countries draft plans to boost the use of alternative currencies.
For some time now, nations from China and Russia to India and Brazil have been pushing for settling more trade in non-dollar units – with projects ranging from the use of local currencies to a gold-backed stablecoin and a new BRICS reserve currency.
Now, even Europe appears to be jumping on the anti-dollar bandwagon, with French president Emmanuel Macron recently warning against the continent's dependence on the greenback.
With movements to undermine the dollar's unipolar supremacy gathering momentum, it comes as no surprise that the buck's status as a reserve currency eroded in 2022 at 10 times the pace seen in the past two decades, according to Eurizon SLJ Asset Management.
Strategists at the asset manager found that the greenback's share of total global reserves fell to 47% last year, from 55% in 2021 and as much as two-thirds in 2003.
For decades, the US dollar has reigned supreme as the world's reserve currency and is widely used in crossborder trade, especially for commodities such as oil. Thanks to its relative price stability, investors see it as a safe-haven asset in times of heightened economic and geopolitical uncertainty.
The dollar was further bolstered last year by a surge in US interest rates that made it attractive to foreign investors seeking higher yields. It surged 17% during the first nine months of 2022, but has since lost some of its shine on the prospect that the Federal Reserve may soon end its rate hikes as inflation cools rapidly.
Against this backdrop come the latest threats to the greenback's reign — here are 6 currency projects from across the world that are ultimately aimed at undermining the dollar's supremacy.
Assurance in the dollar's dominance ignores signs that countries are serious about seeking alternatives, according to Ruchir Sharma.
This is illustrated when taking account of recent trends in gold: the safe haven commodity has surged 20% in the last half year.
But demand is coming from central banks reducing their dollar holdings, not the "usual suspects" made up of large and small investors, the chair of Rockefeller International wrote in The Financial Times on Sunday.
In fact, central banks account for a record 33% of monthly global demand for gold and are buying more gold than at any time since data began in 1950, he added.
"This buying boom has helped push the price of gold to near-record levels and more than 50% higher than what models based on real interest rates would suggest," said Sharma.
"Clearly, something new is driving gold prices."
Nine of the top 10 central banks buying gold are in developing countries, including China, Russia and India, he said.
Those three countries, along with fellow BRICS nations Brazil and South Africa, are also part of an effort to create a new currency that is separate from the dollar.
"Thus the oldest and most traditional of assets, gold, is now a vehicle of central bank revolt against the dollar," Sharma wrote. "Often in the past both the dollar and gold have been seen as havens, but now gold is seen as much safer. During the short banking crisis in March, gold kept rising while the dollar drifted down. The difference in the movement of the two has never been so large."
He attributes the rush for gold to the increasing use of financial sanctions by the US and its allies, with as much as 30% of nations facing sanctions from the US, European Union, Japan and UK.
That's up from 10% in the 1990s. But after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the West froze the country's currency assets and kicked it out of the SWIFT system.
"Suddenly, it was clear that any nation could be a target," Sharma wrote.
In the face of the dollar's weaponization, even US allies like Thailand and the Philippines are beginning to seek alternative currencies.
Most notably, the Chinese yuan has been growing its international reach, but Sharma cites another threat — the fact that the number of central banks attempting to create digital currencies has tripled in three years.
"The risk for America is that its overconfidence grows, fed by the "no alternative" story. That narrative rests on global trust in US institutions and rule of law, but this is exactly what weaponizing the dollar has done so much to undermine," Sharma wrote. "It rests also on trust in the country's ability to pay its debts, but that is also slipping, as its reliance on foreign funding keeps growing."
Others have been less wary of de-dollarization fears, citing that the trust in the greenback is difficult to replicate.
Commonwealth's Brad McMillan said even if a strong alternative was to emerge, it would take monumental effort and persuasion to replace the dollar.
And former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said the yuan isn't a threat to the US dollar, largely because China isn't a predictable and reliable market. |
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| From: Black Blade | 5/5/2023 12:39:20 AM | | | | | | Newmont Merger Would Create The World's Biggest Gold Miner
Thursday, May 04, 2023 - 11:15 AM
By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice
The board of Australia's Newcrest Mining has recommended the latest takeover offer of bigger sector player Newmont, which last month valued the target company at $19.5 billion.
"The latest offer is one that the board would be prepared to recommend subject to successful due diligence during the period," interim Newcrest chief executive Sherry Duhe said this week, as quoted by Bloomberg.
"This transaction would strengthen our position as the world's leading gold company by joining two of the sector's top senior gold producers and setting the new standard in safe, profitable and responsible mining," Newmont's chief executive TomPalmer said, as quoted by Reuters, after the announcement of the latest offer.
Newmont first made a non-binding offer for Newcrest in February, which valued the company at $16.9 billion, but Newcrest rejected that as too low. Then the gold miner tried again, sweetening the offer.
If a deal does materialize, it will bring Newmont's gold output much higher—twice as high as the output of its rival, Barrick Gold, according to Reuters. It would also constitute the third-largest deal involving an Australian company as well as the third-largest M&A deal this year, the news outlet noted.
According to Bloomberg, the deal would also boost Newmont's presence in copper: the basic metal, which is essential for the energy transition, makes up a quarter of Newcrest's total output at present, but the company wants to boost that to 50% by 2030.
Copper is indispensable for wind and solar farm wiring and for EV engines. Yet supply of the metal is under threat because of insufficient new mining capacity coming on stream and falling ore grades.
Warnings of a looming copper shortage have been multiplying in recent months, but they have not yet made any forecasters budge on their expectations of an EV boom combined with a wind and solar boom. |
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| From: Black Blade | 5/5/2023 12:40:39 AM | | | | | | Gold hits record high after near 3-year gap; $2,000 new support
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Investing.com — It took almost three years, but it appears to have been worth the wait for gold longs.
Amid signs the Federal Reserve is ready for a ceasefire with its inflation-fighting rate hikes, gold in one swoop move crossed over to the other side of the rainbow that longs had awaited to revisit since the record highs of August 2020.
Gold for June delivery on New York’s Comex hit an all-time high of $2,082.80 an ounce before settling at $2,055.70, up $18.70, or 0.9%.
The spot price of gold, which reflects physical trades in bullion and is more closely followed than futures by some traders, hit an apex of $2,080.72 before consolidating to $2,046.65 by 14:00 ET (18:00 GMT), up $7.89, or 0.4% on the day.
Previously, the record high in both Comex gold and spot trading of bullion was at around $2,075.
Aside from the Fed’s wavering stance on whether another rate hike was needed in June — the central bank has made 10 raises since the pandemic, adding 5% to key lending rates that some say is choking credit — Thursday’s rally in gold was underpinned by broader concerns over the U.S. economy.
“The force is strong for gold bulls given all the banking turmoil and rising risks that the U.S. will have a tough recession,” said Ed Moya, analyst at online trading platform OANDA.
“The real economy is going to get knocked down a lot given what we are seeing with financials and that will keep demand elevated for safe-havens. Gold is going to shine given this macro backdrop and possibly eye a move above the $2,100 if the de-risking mood on Wall Street remains over the next few sessions.”
Since mid-March, gold has darted in and out $2,000 territory. To anchor itself there, the Dollar Index must not cross 101.47 while U.S. bond yields, led by the 10-year Treasury note, should remain under 3.47% on a daily closing basis, said Sunil Kumar Dixit, chief technical strategist at SKCharting.com.
Gold itself could lurch to $2,098 initially, and then towards $2,148 as looming risks of a U.S. debt default, a growing banking credit crisis and bets of a June pause in Fed rate hikes come to a head, said Dixit.
“A short term correction towards the support areas of $2,020-$2,010 could also turn into a buy-the-dips opportunity for those who lost out on the run to $2,080,” he said. “The upward momentum will remain intact so long as the daily close remains above $2,000 — making that the new normal for gold should the support hold.” |
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| From: Black Blade | 5/5/2023 2:17:19 AM | | | | | | Gold miners show strength as gold nears all-time high
May 04, 2023 5:45 PM ETSPDR® Gold Shares ETF (GLD), GDX, SLVIAU, NEM, GFI, AEM, IAG, HMY, CDE, SIL, AU, SGOL, SIVR, GDXJ, PHYS, PSLV, NUGT, SLVP, OUNZ, SILJ, SSRM, BAR, GLDM, AAAU, XAGUSD:CUR, XAUUSD:CUR, GROY, FGLDBy: Carl Surran, SA News Editor
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Gold flirted with record highs and silver settled at its highest in more than a year on Thursday, as U.S. banking concerns and rising fears of a potential recession accelerated a flight to the safe-haven asset.
A weaker dollar also has helped lift gold, with the ICE U.S. Dollar Index down 0.3% this week and more than 2% this year to 101.26.
Spot gold (XAUUSD:CUR) was +0.3% at $2,045.79/oz after climbing as high as $2,072.19, just $0.30 shy of a record, and front-month Comex gold for May delivery closed +0.9% at $2,048.00/oz, its second highest settlement in history behind only the record $2,051.50 hit on August 6, 2020.
Silver (XAGUSD:CUR) scored its sixth straight daily gain, with the front-month May Comex contract closing+2.2% to $26.035/oz, its highest settlement value since April 18, 2022 but still far from the record high $48.70 achieved on January 17, 1980.
ETFs: (NYSEARCA:GLD), (NYSEARCA:GDX), (GDXJ), (IAU), (NUGT), (PHYS), (GLDM), (AAAU), (SGOL), (BAR), (OUNZ), (FGLD), (NYSEARCA:SLV), (PSLV), (SIVR), (SIL), (SILJ), (SLVP)
Most precious metals miners posted gains Thursday, including SSR Mining (SSRM) +9.8%, Gold Royalty (GROY) +5.9%, AngloGold Ashanti (AU) +5.5%, Coeur Mining (CDE) +5.5%, Newmont (NEM) +4%, Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM) +4%, Iamgold (IAG) +3.8%, Harmony Gold (HMY) +3.8%, Gold Fields (GFI) +3.7%.
Gold traders believe they have "a real shot at recording another all-time high as the Fed has finally thrown in the towel on the interest-rate-hike agenda," Naeem Aslam, chief investment officer at Zaye Capital Markets, told MarketWatch. |
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| From: Black Blade | 5/7/2023 1:51:48 AM | | | | | | Gold and Silver Gain on Banking Woes and Rate Hike Hopes
Last week, concerns over the banking sector drove gold and silver higher for modest weekly gains, and the pair’s second consecutive monthly uptick. In terms of scheduled economic events for this week, the emphasis was on the Fed’s two-day policy meeting and subsequent rate hike update. Investors also anticipated employment news, while fears of a banking contagion weighed heavily on risk appetite.
Gold and silver saw little change Monday. The pair ended trading near $1,981 and $24.87, respectively as the dollar gained. On the same day, stocks in the U.S. dipped as news broke that First Republic Bank’s assets had been seized by regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase, marking the most significant U.S. bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis.
A drop in Treasury yields and fears of a banking contagion drove gold almost 2% higher on Tuesday, to 2,018 an ounce. Stocks fell again on the same day, as the Fed’s 2- day policy meeting began. Wall Street sentiment was further dented by news that job openings in the U.S. had fallen to a 2-year low of 9.6 million.
By Wednesday, market participants had given more than a 90% chance of a 0.25% rate hike, which was later confirmed by Fed Chair Jerome Powell in his news briefing. In his address, Powell acknowledged concerns of a recession in 2023. While it’s expected that the Fed will pause its rate hike campaign at the June meeting, the Fed Chair did not provide any clear direction in that regard. Stocks fell during a Q&A session in which Powell threw water on the idea that the Fed would cut rates sometime in 2023, when he stated that “Our forecast is not for rate cuts coming.”
Gold neared a fresh all-time high at its weekly peak of $2,071 on Wednesday evening, following the rate hike announcement. On Thursday, silver touched a 1-year high of $26.11, while gold ended trading near $2,057, as banking concerns drove a flight to safe-haven assets. On the same day, stocks ended their fourth consecutive day of declines.
Stronger-than-expected U.S. payroll data (+253,000 vs. +188,000 expected) from this morning, further tempered any hopes that the Fed may cut rates. This news also weighed on gold, while stocks rallied. Currently, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 are eying 1.5% and 0.9% respective weekly losses, while the Nasdaq Composite is almost flat for the week.
Following this morning’s jobs news, gold fell by nearly 2% but is eying a 1.6% weekly gain at $2,015 an ounce. Silver also fell this morning, but is currently near $25.60 an ounce, which would be a 1.9% weekly uptick. For this week, gold and silver are likely to survive the employment surprise for weekly gains driven by baking concerns and the prospect of a rate hike pause. Next week, investors will likely focus economic releases in inflation data and jobless news, due out on Wednesday and Thursday. |
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| From: Black Blade | 5/7/2023 2:03:38 AM | | | | | | Never ever keep all your wealth and valuable assets in Banks or Safety Deposit Boxes - Government is a criminal enterprise by it's very nature. Hide your wealth as best you can where it's difficult for terrorist criminals like the FBI to find and steal it.
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The FBI seized $40,000 a couple held in a deposit box 2 years ago, but won't say why and won't return their cash
Story by stabahriti@insider.com (Sam Tabahriti) • 9h ago
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- The FBI seized a couple's savings they held in a deposit box in a raid in March 2021.
- Linda Martin said the agency had never explained why it's still holding her $40,200.
- She and her husband have filed a lawsuit in conjunction with the nonprofit Institute for Justice.
Linda and Reggie Martin had their savings seized by the FBI from a deposit box in March 2021. Two years later, the agency still won't explain why it's holding their money.
Agents raided the Beverly Hills, California branch of US Private Vaults and seized more than $86 million in cash, as well as jewelry and gold, from 1,400 safe-deposit boxes held by hundreds of people who were not suspected of any crimes, according to court documents previously seen by Insider.
The couple were keeping $40,200 cash in their box and only found out about the raid on local news.
"The FBI took my savings nearly two years ago but has never told me why," Linda Martin said in a press release. "It's been a confusing and frustrating process from the day my money was taken. No one should have to go through this."
The Institute of Injustice, who is representing Martin in a class-action lawsuit, said: "They were just supposed to identify owners so they could claim their property, but the FBI instead acted on its months-old plan to search and try to forfeit the contents of any box worth more than $5,000."
Months after the raid, the FBI sent forfeiture notices, telling hundreds of box holders, including Martin, that "the government wanted to take their property forever, even though they were not named in the indictment against the company."
Linda Martin was left "utterly bewildered," per the press release. Her lawsuit, filed on March 7 and reviewed by Insider, accused the FBI of violating the Fifth Amendment, which requires the government to provide specific factual and legal reasons for forfeiture.
Bob Belden, a lawyer with the Institute for Justice, said: "The government shouldn't get to take your property if it can't tell you what you did wrong. Using civil forfeiture, the government decides for itself whether to take and try to keep property, even when it doesn't suspect the owners of any crime."
He added: "Then, the FBI sends copy-and-paste forfeiture notices that fail to tell owners anything about why it is trying to take their property. That's not only wrong – it's unconstitutional."
A lawsuit, filed in May last year on behalf of several US Private Vaults customers, accused the FBI of lying about its intentions with the raid. "Ultimately, the lure of civil forfeiture turned these federal cops into robbers," said Robert Frommer, another lawyer for the nonprofit.
The complaint stopped the FBI's forfeiture proceedings against the renters named in the lawsuit. The judge declared that the FBI's notices were "anemic" and that the agency should notify the renters of "the factual bases for seizure and the specific statutory provision allegedly violated."
But in September, District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled that federal agents who raided the branch did not violate search and seizure laws.
US Private Vaults shut down following the Beverly Hills raid and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder drug money.
The FBI declined to comment to Insider. |
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| From: Black Blade | 5/20/2023 4:36:17 AM | | | | | | Gold’s drop under $2,000 is a buying opportunity, say UBS and other analysts
Story by Barbara Kollmeyer • 13h ago
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A string of recent losses has seen gold walk back from the $2,000-plus level, but Swiss bank UBS is among those who see a buying opportunity and a return to that price range.
Gold is now sitting 4% below its year-to-date high reached earlier this month, noted a team of UBS strategists led by Wayne Gordon. Closing at its weakest since a late March low on Thursday, gold is set for the worst week since October last year, dogged by a strong U.S. dollar and optimism around a debt-ceiling deal in Congress.
But the commodity is still up 7.7% on the year, hovering at around $1,966 per ounce on Friday.
In a note dated Thursday, Gordon and the team said investors shouldn’t be too surprised by the consolidation seen in gold after such a strong rally. Their forecasts are unchanged — $2,050 per ounce by end September, $2,100 by the end of the year, $2,200 by end March 2024 and a new June 2024 target of $2,250.
UBS sees three reasons to buy gold right now and the first is that central bank gold demand should stay robust. “Last year marked the 13th consecutive year of net gold purchases by global central banks and the highest level of annual demand on record,” said Gordon and his colleagues.
Based on first-quarter World Gold Council data and driven by geopolitical risks and diversification desires, UBS expects central banks will buy around 700 metric tons of gold this year, which would be vastly higher than the last decade’s average.
Broad U.S. dollar weakness is a second reason to buy, and investors should expect headwinds for the greenback to intensify as a Federal Reserve pivot to lower interest rates looks possible, maybe in the second half of the year, said UBS, which added that the European Central Bank will likely keep tightening monetary policy by contrast.
A final reason to buy gold is rising U.S. recession risks that could drive safe haven flows, notably via gold-themed exchange-traded funds and physical demand.
Also weighing in on gold’s prospects Friday was fund manager Wisdom Tree whose head of commodities and macroeconomic research, Nitesh Shah, expects a new all-time nominal gold high by the end of 2023.
Shah noted that investors have been hedging in gold futures since the collapse of the California’s Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year, with positioning weak in the run-up to that crisis. Flows into exchange-traded-products have been less dramatic, but the analyst said an investor return to those “in significant force” could provide a major push to gold.
Gold has also been outpacing gains in the bond market, and he also sees central bank buying continuing, as many were spooked by sanctions on Russia due to its war on Ukraine.
And Shah said demand for gold as a hedge remains as investors watch the U.S. debt-ceiling debate in Congress. If the U.S. runs out of money and faces either a sovereign default or harsh spending cuts in June, hopes for a soft landing for the economy would quickly fade. “Even an 11th hour deal may see a lot of damage as nervous investors may pull back on risk in the fear of an accident,” he said.
He set up three scenarios for gold prices.
His bull case involves a faster pivot on interest rates for the Fed and monetary expansion by summer 2023 which would mean falling bond yields and pressure on the dollar. Inflation would stay elevated in this case and more investors would pile into gold. He’s targeting $2,420 per ounce by the fourth quarter of this year and $2,517 by the first quarter of 2024.
Read: If the Fed cuts interest rates during a recession, it would be ‘the worst of all possible worlds’
Shah’s bear case sees inflation falling below the Fed’s target to 1.8%, meaning the central bank has overdone its monetary tightening. He said while that scenario would raise recession risks, perhaps drawing investors into gold as a hedge, “for the sake of building scenarios, we cut the speculative positioning in gold futures down to 50,000.” This scenario would see gold fall to $1,730 per once by end 2023, and $1,725 an ounce by the first quarter of next year, bringing it back to November 2022 levels.
WisdomTree’s consensus scenario for gold sees the precious metal reaching $2,008 per ounce by the third quarter of 2023, $2,260 per ounce by the fourth quarter and $2,285 by the first quarter of 2024.
“The risk is clearly to the upside this year if a recession or financial dislocation materializes. Gold is a highly sought after asset in times of economic and financial stress, and so a recession could drive sentiment for the metal even higher,” said Shah, adding that consensus views are calling for falling inflation, a weaker dollar and falling bond yields. |
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| From: Black Blade | 5/20/2023 4:38:06 AM | | | | | | Holding Gold Is Like Holding a Wildcard .................................................................................................
Clint Siegner GoldInvesting
MAY 15, 2023
By Clint Siegner
The future of money is uncertain, and speculation about what comes next is all over the place. The Federal Reserve note “dollar” is the world’s reserve currency, but its seat on that throne is no longer secure.
Nations around the world aren’t happy with either the weaponization of the dollar or the fact that the U.S. government prints it without restraint.
The BRICS countries are actively developing an asset-backed currency to compete with the dollar.
They are already cutting trade deals with settlement in rubles or yuan, instead of the greenback.
Central banks everywhere, including the Federal Reserve, are toying with digital currencies.
Authoritarians love the idea of money they can programmatically track and control. If it were up to them, CBDCs would almost certainly become the coin of the realm in countries around the world.
Fortunately, it may not be up to them. The number of people sounding the alarm is growing and it is hard to corral free people and free markets.
Some people expect the launch of the quantum financial system – a radical overhaul of banking, money and finance powered by quantum computing.
Others expect a decentralized cryptocurrency like Bitcoin to win out.
The point here is not to speculate about what monetary system will prevail in the decades ahead. Suffice it to say there are lots of competing interests and ideas, so there is no telling which might succeed.
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It simply looks increasingly certain that major changes are coming and may not be too far off.
The best way for investors to prepare for the coming changes probably isn’t to bet on a single outcome. There are smart people making the case for each of the scenarios mentioned above. Most will be wrong, by default.
It is even possible they will all be wrong as some unexpected development changes the course of monetary history. Perhaps the U.S. government will finally do the right thing. Congress could restore restraints on borrowing and spending and abandon the fiat dollar – backing it once again with gold.
Investors don’t have to guess. Holding tangible assets with universal value and appeal is a better way to prepare against the coming changes. There will be a market and a price for commodities, real estate, and precious metals regardless of what money people might use.
Investors can know this because it is already proven. It doesn’t matter whether you have euros, rubles, or pounds, there is a price for tangible assets like gold. And this has been true throughout history.
Precious metals offer additional advantages over other tangible assets in that it is easy to physically store significant value, ownership can remain private, and they are portable.
These traits make gold and silver the best wildcard to hold with so much uncertainty ahead.
Clint Siegner is a Director at Money Metals Exchange, a precious metals dealer recently named “Best in the USA” by an independent global ratings group. A graduate of Linfield College in Oregon, Siegner puts his experience in business management along with his passion for personal liberty, limited government, and honest money into the development of Money Metals’ brand and reach. This includes writing extensively on the bullion markets and their intersection with policy and world affairs. |
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| From: Black Blade | 9/19/2023 10:13:57 PM | | | | | | Fortuitous Discovery: Man Finds 9,999 Abandoned World War II Gold Bars.
As the Nazis fled occupied Europe in the final days of the second world war, four German soldiers buried a hoard of gold coins and jewels in the middle of nowhere in the Dutch countryside. Nearly 80 years later, hopes of finding the buried loot have been raised after the National Archives of the Netherlands released a trove of documents – and a map to the treasure where X marks the spot.
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As the Nazis fled occupied Europe in the final days of the second world war, four German soldiers buried a hoard of gold coins and jewels in the middle of nowhere in the Dutch countryside. Nearly 80 years later, hopes of finding the buried loot have been raised after the National Archives of the Netherlands released a trove of documents – and a map to the treasure where X marks the spot. |
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