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DFW

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10. You'd be surprised

Reply to 2MuchNoise (Reply #9)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:16 AM

18 hrs ago

In my work, I've been inside some Central Banks, and after a while walls of gold bricks are still just bricks at the end of the day. On the other hand, if they have some old Spanish gold 8 escudos minted in the early 1700s that sunk in a hurricane, and were just recently recovered by divers, or some gold Roman aureii minted under Trajan, Nero or Marcus Aurelius, now THAT is cool!

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