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The Telegrapk, UK - Dec2012 - clik 1 - clik2 - clik 3
Sob hemorragia de ouro, Rainha vira garota propaganda. Gesto inútil, países sacando reservas.
Maybe it's just a coincidence but maybe instead it's a propaganda campaign launched by the British government and the Bank of England to assuage growing international concerns about the oversubscription, lending, and swapping of Western central bank reserves. The Queen and the Duke toured vaults piled high with gold bullion worth billions of pounds and briefly inspected some of the slabs.
In the vault, one of nine in which the Bank stores a total of around 200 billion pounds worth of gold, the couple saw 63,000 gold bars stacked in eight rows. Each four-ton stack is four shelves high, with each shelf holding 80 bars. A gold bar weighs 13kg, worth pounds 423,783 at today's price.