Word: bullion
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...communist, Muslim and military rebels. And he is rumored to be planning to end the government's campaign to seize the Marcos billions. Last week the official charged with retrieving the "hidden wealth" recommended a compromise with Imelda to split the proceeds, if recovered, of a fortune in gold bullion said to be stashed in Switzerland...
What gold Iraq possesses is being sold to obtain hard currency needed to pay for essential imports. Gold Fields Minerals Services, a London-based consulting firm, reported last week that in the past six months Iraq may have secretly sold off up to 50 tons of its bullion reserve, which was last reported, in 1977, to stand at 129 tons. That could explain how Saddam came up with enough hard cash to thumb his nose at a United Nations offer to let him sell $1.6 billion in oil to buy much needed food and medical products abroad...
...more than $3.1 billion. But most Soviets consider that sum laughably low. In recent weeks, one newspaper started its own investigation into the missing riches; a coalition of emerging Soviet businesses launched another. Their probes place the money everywhere from hard-currency accounts in foreign banks to gold bullion in Swiss vaults...
Three tons of gold bars, nuggets, bullion and rare coins from the California goldfields were lost in 1857, when the steamship Central America sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas. Now this lost treasure, confirmed 18 months ago and worth up to $1 billion today, is in the eye of another hurricane, this time in a Norfolk, Va., courtroom...