On Apr 12, 2017, at 4:23 AM, (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
On 11 Apr 2017 at 18:19, Richard Aiken wrote:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Bruce Johnson
<xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
<http://www.popularmechanics .
com/military/weapons/a26009/man-discovers-gold-in- ex-army-tank/>
oBTrav: PC´s pick up a beat-up G-gcarrier cheap at a Naval
Surplus auction. Previous occupants have stashed valuables rifled
during FFW in it, arrive to retrieve them, find out it´s been
sold.
Hijnx Ensue :-)
Especially if you follow the article closely . . . since the
*reported* value of the find equals precisely TWICE the *reported*
mass of the find . . .
That just means somebody saw "kilos" and wrote "pounds" in the
article.
or saw ‘pounds’ and wrote ‘dollars’ (or both!) although the £-$ exchange rate has not been all that high for a while. I’m guessing, given the sourcing (Daily Mail) mistakes could have easily been made :-)
It would be hard for the finders to get away with inflating the value since they’d be dealing with the bank which is in physical possession of the gold.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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