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Tungsten-Filled 10 Oz Gold Bar Found In The Middle Of Manhattan's Jewelry District *video*

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Tungsten-Filled 10 Oz Gold Bar Found In The Middle Of Manhattan’s Jewelry District + video

It is one thing for tungsten-filled gold bars to appear in the UK, or in Germany: after all out of sight, and across the Atlantic, certainly must mean out of mind, and out of the safe.

However, when a 10 ounce 999.9 gold bar bearing the stamp of the reputable Swiss Produits Artistiques Métaux Précieux (PAMP, with owner MTP) and a serial number (serial #038892, likely rehypothecated in at least 10 gold ETFs across the world but that’s a different story), mysteriously emerges in the heart of the world’s jewerly district located on 47th street in Manhattan, things get real quick.

Moments ago, Myfoxny reported that a 10-ounce gold bar costing nearly $18,000 turned out to be a counterfeit. The discovery was made by the dealer Ibrahim Fadl, who bought the PAMP bar in question from a merchant who has sold him real gold before. “But he heard counterfeit gold bars were going around, so he drilled into several of his gold bars worth $100,000 and saw gray tungsten — not gold.

The bar was filled with tungsten, which weighs nearly the same as gold but costs just over a dollar an ounce.”

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    • ElOregonian

      This is going to be the case moving forward. You’ll have to measure the exact dimensions by the exact weight and if you have the resources you’ll have to X-Ray your Bars. This also applies to Silver Bars now too.

      You cannot trust anyone, anymore. It is just has to be the “New Normal”.

      • Paveway III

        X-rays will not penetrate a gold bar – you can’t see inside. XRF only analyzes the surface. Tungsten’s density is a fraction of a percent different than gold. Measuring and weighing that accurately is beyond the capability of anything but a decent lab.

        The PAMP 10oz. bar pictured above is in a sealed plastic case. Breaking that to test anything will reduce its value (providing its real) and make the next buyer suspicious.

        No idea why this guy would destroy the case to test it, but he just sank his entire business (if it’s not an insurance scam). Jewlers, dentists, etc. usually don’t buy bulk gold in sealed bars like this and a reseller doesn’t cut them down. I wonder if he even had the PAMP certificates for these?

        • ElOregonian

          I meant a sonogram. And yes they had the certificates but they were forgeries. The criminals who pulled this off were high-level counterfeiters, probably even government-backed. I’m sure the existing unadulterated bullion will have to sky-rocket due to the now apparent shortage of actual Gold supplies…

          It is a sad day for all of us. Especially when crooks like Corzine can disappear $1.6 Billion Dollars of private customers savings and STILL this creation has not even been charged let alone jailed for his crimes. But, you let some poor bastard not pay his parking fine and off to the clink with him!

          Then they wonder why chaos is erupting and people are disconnecting and deciding to revolt against the fraud. It’s because the criminals are running everything instead of behind bars where they belong! They’ve screwed everything up and we let them by not locking these Narcissistic Kleptocrats away a long time ago.

    • mmkkpro

      Does this really surprise anyone,like EL said its the normal thing now,its sad this country has been degraded and its going down much farther,watch the movie” the road” there is our future,unless the light workers can be successful in changing our vibration level,either we release ourselves from money and get back to nature or we will cease to exist as a species,we areat that point and it aint no joke,keep on believing everything is fine and you are in for a big surprise,we are so far out of balance with nature its only possible to cease to exist asa civilazation it will be the middle ages all over agian count on it

    • MikeWon

      & how many are actually perceived to be authentic? Everything is counterfeit! But enuff of this gibberish! Pish posh! Balderdash, poppycock & drivel! Where’s the beef? The beef is at the butchers! Where are the WRIST PHONES? Cell phones are merely mini tablets! Tablets are ferda sickos! 44 pages of Google images ~ YouTube Videos educate
      [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71DeMnKUAQo&feature=related]
      Sears redirects ~ Alibaba fails ~ UIMobile fails ~ Amazon fails
      Spit snot in our face & call it rain! We want touch screen Dick Tracy Watches with camera ~ NOW!
      Specifically: SGM969 Golden Wrist Phone
      SGM969 Black Voice Dialing Quad-Band watch phone AT&T
      So where’s the golden? Where’s any worthwhile advertising?
      SMACKS of incompetency, fraud, corruption, mismanagement & stupid!
      Ever since Eve, we reject Apple and All Apple Impersonators!
      We gotcher ‘apps’ and anythin ‘iPod’, iPad’ & ‘i’itus rite here*!
      *[Body map ~ North of da Knees - South of da navel!] :sad:

    • faro0485

      That’s the worst looking counterfeit I have ever seen. Can’t be the real 10oz fake.

      Question, how much tugstein is there on this planet? 2.9 million tons. And of Gold? 165,000 tons.

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