Originally Posted by SimonH
Sold at $277/oz peaked at $1780/oz
Generated £3.5 Billion, could have generated £22.5 BillionYou've answered the question in your own post Joe
$ as in the price of gold and £ as in the amount of money it generated and could have generated for the British economy, I thought it was fairly obviousMaybe not
no, its not fairly obvious to me, where did you get your figures from, £3.5billion and £22.5 billion
maybe ..
$277oz * 32,000 oz in a ton * 400 tonnes = $3,545,600,000 or $3.5 Billion not £, looks like i know the difference between $ and the £
no comment on my linkPrice of bullion was at 20-year low when Brown sold 400 tonnes for £2bn in 1999
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3OObkIjZJ
tell me how much thatcher got for the family sliver , oh and dont forget to add the £1billion lost last year with the sale of the post office
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