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Give us your gold wedding bands for these patriotic steel rings

Michael Allan McCrae | December 09, 2012 | 5:46 pm Precious Metals Europe Gold 

Adrian Ash at BullionVault traces the history of gold confiscation by Western government's through the past century, a practice more widespread than remembered. Of course there is a confiscation by the US government in 1933, but over 30 years later...

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