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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 741770, member: 1674&quot;]it is so common because it was used in foreign commerce and so foreign banks held it as a bullion reserve (when such a thing was required) and so it was spread out across Europe and stored there.&nbsp; Additionally, when the US rebuilt Europe following WWI and WWII we paid for that with gold in the form of pre-33 US gold coins.&nbsp; that gold was then sent to the central banks of the European nations where it was used to rebuild infrastructure and was then held by the banks as a bullion deposit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally the US started repatriating the coins and there has been a steady flow of them back into the US market resulting in the abundance that we have today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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