Bundesbank Pulls All Stops to Show Germans Their Gold Is Real
Light illuminates the edge of a gold ingot on display inside the Deutsche Bundesbank's money museum in Frankfurt, Germany
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If Germans have any doubts about the authenticity of their gold -- and some of them really do -- their central bank is doing all it can to qualm their concerns.
Germany’s Bundesbank this week launches a nearly six-month exhibition on gold, which will showcase the most interesting gold bars and coins in the central bank’s collection. That follows its release earlier this month of a book on “The Gold of the Germans”, which “for the first time shows readers the gold bars in such a way as if they were held in their own hands,” according to board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele.