* The film Die Hard with a Vengeance has a plot involving thieves breaking into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and stealing most of the gold bullion stored underground by driving dump trucks through a nearby Wall Street subway station.

Moreover the influx of silver and gold from Central and South America into Spain and thus to the rest of Europe was destabilising the price of bullion and making the situation worse.

Millions of pounds of gold bullion were shipped from Australia to London each year to be minted into coin.

In response to inquiries from the World Jewish Congress, the US Federal Reserve Bank admitted in 1997 that personal gold seized by the Nazis was melted into gold bars after the war and then shipped as gold bullion to the central banks of four European countries.

All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, with the exception of the following:

) Pamuk however highlights Morineau ’ s recent research with specie flows into Europe continuing to increase during the 17th century even after prices declined, casting doubts on the causality of inflation by bullion inflows.

Gold bullion from Rome would be melted and used for the Kushan mints, into three denominations: the double stater, the stater, and the quarter starter ( or dinara ).

A recent addition to Sovereign Hill is the Gold Pour where pure gold valued at over $ 100, 000 is melted and poured into a three-kilogram bullion bar.

It did not provide for the " free and unlimited coinage of silver " demanded by Western miners, but it did require the United States Treasury to purchase between $ 2 million and $ 4 million of silver bullion from mining companies in the West, to be minted into coins that would be legal tender for all debts, like gold.

:“ It will be for the Treasury in collaboration with the Bank of England, and the Foreign Office, to examine the possible means of getting the bullion and negotiable securities into the same place of safety.

On 24 July 1663 he alone signed a protest against the bill " for the encouragement of trade ", on the plea that owing to the free export of coin and bullion allowed by the act, and to the importation of foreign commodities being greater than the export of home goods, " it must necessarily follow ... that our silver will also be carried away into foreign parts and all trade fail for want of money.

Toons may go into the three Cog mints ( the coin mint, the dollar mint, and the bullion mint ) or fight Cashbots outside of Cashbot HQ to get more Cogbucks.

The drain of wealth translated into a complete lack of gold or silver bullion in the colonies, and thus, a complete lack of forms of economic exchange and payment.

They came into wide usage during the war ( 1812-1815 ) to make up for the lack of bullion in Upper and Lower Canada.

Some consolation was, however, provided to the mercantilists by the employment of the timber in the merchant fleet that would later assist in bringing bullion into the land.

Rampant smuggling of timber into and out of Norway was mostly ignored, as were the illegal exports of bullion to fund the trade.

Engelhard exported these religious objets d ' art to Hong Kong, where they were melted down and turned back into gold bullion, which could then be sold on the free market.

Over time the precious metal clippings could be saved up and melted into bullion or used to make new coins.

This act required the government to purchase between $ 2 million and $ 4 million worth of silver bullion each month at market prices and to coin it into silver dollars.

If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money, his treasure will not defray him as he travels.

The Roman gold coins imported from Rome into Gandhara were usually melted into bullion in these regions.

For about five years, gold was the only metallic standard in the United States until passage of the Bland-Allison Act on February 28, 1878 requiring the US Treasury to purchase domestic silver bullion to be minted into legal tender coins co-existent with gold coins.

In an era before paper money, an increase for bullion was one of the few ways to increase the money supply.

In 1930 economist William Howard Steiner wrote that the term was used " at one time to signify that a certain amount of bullion was stored in the Treasury while the equivalent paper in circulation " represented the bullion.

For instance, Canada mints a gold bullion coin ( the Gold Maple Leaf ) at a face value of $ 50 containing one troy ounce ( 31. 1035 g ) of gold — as of May 2011, this coin is worth about $ 1, 500 CAD as bullion.

The sovereign is a gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.

Gold is one of the densest metals and therefore much heavier ( for equivalent size or volume ) than the common metals such as lead, brass, copper and steel that are used to make fake bullion coins.

Nickel silver fraud has included the production of replica bullion bars, marked " Nickel Silver " or " German Silver ", in weights of one troy ounce.

For example, a one troy ounce ( 31 g ) American Gold Eagle bullion coin was worth and sold for about $ 1, 200 USD during 2009 market prices () and yet has a face value of only $ 50 USD.

Subsequently, another act of Congress dated June 24, 1967, provided that Silver Certificates could be exchanged for silver bullion for a period of one year, until June 24, 1968.

He claimed he opened just one of the boxes, and found it packed with gold bullion.

This coin was discontinued after 1938, but has since been reprised in 2001 on a US commemorative coin, and more recently on a gold buffalo one ounce gold bullion coin.

Her group is enlisted by Auric Goldfinger to aid in " Operation Grand Slam ", an operation that would poison the Fort Knox water supply with a water-borne nerve agent ( GB, also called sarin ), and, if successful, would use a stolen nuclear weapon to blow open and rob the U. S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox of one billion dollars in gold bullion.

American Silver Eagle bullion coins carry a face value of one dollar.

) Because JMB was one of five members of the London Gold Fixing, Bank of England officials were worried that if the bank became insolvent then confidence in the other bullion banks would be undermined, and that panic could spread further to the rest of the British banking system.

Following nomadic interference in Siberia — one of the sources for India's bullion — India diverted its attention to the Malay peninsula, which became its new source for gold and was soon exposed to the world via a series of maritime trade routes.

The United States holds more gold bullion than any other country, with about 2. 39 times that of the next leading country, Germany.

An Agio was sometimes allowed for payment in the more convenient form of gold or where the value paper currency of a country fell below the bullion which it professed to represent.

European trade exported bullion to pay for goods from Asia, thus reducing the money supply and putting downward pressure on prices and economic activity.

A Tyrian shekel of Rome, a possibility for the type of silver coin used to bribe Judas Iscariot. The stability of the Roman currency relied to a high degree on the supply of silver bullion, which Roman miners produced on a scale unparalleled before the discovery of the New World.

Mercantilism held that a nation's prosperity depended on its supply of capital, represented by bullion ( gold, silver, and trade value ) held by the state.

If the market forces of supply and demand for either metal caused its bullion value to exceed its nominal currency value, it tends to disappear from circulation by hoarding or melting down.

Due to limited growth in the supply of gold reserves, during a time of great inflation of the dollar supply, the United States eventually abandoned the gold exchange standard and thus bullion convertibility in 1974.