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2. Gold repatriation - Wikipedia

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   The central bank of the Netherlands reduced its proportion of gold held by the New York Federal Reserve from 51% to 31%, and Austria and Belgium reviewed the possibility of taking similar measures. [1] World Gold Reserves from 1845 to 2013, in tonnes. Changes in central bank gold reserves by country 1993-2014. Switzerland sold three times more ...

3. Executive Order 6102 - Wikipedia

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   The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 made contractual gold clauses unenforceable. It also allowed the President to change the gold content of the US dollar by proclamation. Immediately following its passage, Roosevelt changed the gold content of the dollar from $20.67 to $35 per ounce, thereby devaluing US federal reserve notes, which were backed on gold.

4. Gold reserve - Wikipedia

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   Official U.S. gold reserve since 1900 Changes in Central Bank Gold Reserves by Country 1993–2014 Central 2005 and 2014. A gold reserve is the gold held by a national central bank, intended mainly as a guarantee to redeem promises to pay depositors, note holders (e.g. paper money), or trading peers, during the eras of the gold standard, and also as a store of value, or to support the value of ...

5. Federal Reserve Note - Wikipedia

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   A one-dollar bill, the most common Federal Reserve Note . Federal Reserve Notes are the currently issued banknotes of the United States dollar. [1] The United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces the notes under the authority of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 [2] and issues them to the Federal Reserve Banks at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. [2]

6. United States ten-thousand-dollar bill - Wikipedia

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   The note was originally issued as a gold certificate, but the 1933 Executive Order 6102 limited the ownership of gold currency, so the note was redesigned and reissued as a Federal Reserve Note. [1] The Bureau of Engraving and Printing stopped printing them in 1934 [8] but continued to issue the notes until 1969. The notes did not circulate ...

7. Reichsbank - Wikipedia

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   The monetary institutions in Germany had been unsuited for its economic development for several decades before unification. In the Kingdom of Prussia, the Bank of Prussia had been established in 1847 and, in the aftermath of the revolution of 1848, five additional banks had been granted a note-issuance privilege (the Berliner Kassenverein [], Kölnische Privatbank, Magdeburger Privatbank ...