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First Gold Auction

Great Britain · Economy / Gold Reserves. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1999

James Gordon Brown6 July 1999

London · Economy / Gold Reserves

The first Treasury auction begins a programme reducing official gold reserves.

Names involved

James Gordon Brown

Provenance

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