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Germany did not have money to pay war reparations, so US banks loaned them money. Those are the gold transfers, most under the "Dawes Plan." PS: The "Prevailing rate of exchange" … (View Post)

Commercial Alert ---- From the author. Consider a copy of the book From Mine to Mint. I get more reader appreciation feedback on this than from any other single book. (No, I don't make anything on a … (View Post)

Pick up copies of David W. Lange's books on coin folders and albums -- fascinating reading. (View Post)

This is the annual summary of gold exported/imported via the New York Assay Office in 1926. Note the large sums to Germany as part of refinancing War Reparations through American banks. This kind of … (View Post)

The first mint was in Philadelphia because that was the political, commercial and approx. geographic center of the early USA. The two gold-only mints were added to capture US gold for coinage and avo… (View Post)