Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Amazing Pictures of Money - Money Everywhere

This gold vault hold gold entrust for the owners of the streetTRACKS Gold Shares EFT (AMEX:GLD), the world's most popular gold fund.

Not too much info here. A woman posed with stack of packages of $1 silver certificates at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C. [between ca. 1950 and ca. 1969]


This is the world's largest Gold Nugget ever found. Discovered in 1872 and is called the Holtermann Nugget. It was 630lbs in weight.
This Gold is part of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The vault sits on the bedrock of New York 80 feet below the street surface and 50 feet below the sea level. You won't be digging to get to this one. At the time of the photo, the vault had $86 billion in gold, 269 Troy tons.

Fort Knox is where the mother lode of Gold is. This is a picture of one of many vaults filled with Gold.



Drug Money Another internet favorite. $207 million is said to have been taken during a raid on a drug dealer's house in Mexico.







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