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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 24667542, member: 9270&quot;]&quot;Certain things shouldn’t be moved.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Writer Murray Teigh Bloom, who first reported his discovery in his first book, <i>Money of Their Own</i>, Scribners, 1957.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As he explained in a recent letter (circa 1978),</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Once the Philadelphia Mint experimented and found $5.00 was lost by abrasion every time a million dollars worth of gold coin was handled.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Just lifting the bags (each filled with $5,000 worth of gold coin) to the truck resulted in a $5.00 loss; transferring them back to the mint caused another $5.00 loss.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Letting the stuff rest quietly at Fort Knox instead of moving it around nervously to Sub-Treasuries makes us richer.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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