News compilation: 2017 starts with the Most Bizarre Gold News!
Have you heard about the 22kg of gold lost in Africa a couple of weeks ago? Or about the gold objects found inside a piano in the UK?
Read on and don't miss out 2017's most bizarre gold news to date!
Extravagant wedding present by an Indian royal family
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia gave his daughter a toilet made completely from gold as her wedding present. The cost of the gift has not been revealed but from the picture, it is easy to say that it was not precisely cheap.
However, the price of the bride's dress has been revealed: $30,000,000. Why? Because it is also completely made of gold! Forbes estimated the King's wealth at $21 billion.
Hoard of mysterious gold artefacts found inside a piano
A hoard of gold artefacts has been found inside a piano in the UK while it was being tuned. If the family who hid the gold inside that piano is not traced, the artefacts will then belong to the state.
Curiously enough, the experts have decided not to give any detail about the gold objects until they find their owners. The only thing they have declared is that the gold has been hidden on purpose inside that piano within the last 110 years.
New $100 USA gold coin
On April 6th, a commemorative $100 gold coin will be released in the USA. The coin will feature an image of Liberty as a black woman, while the other side of it will show an eagle in flight.
The 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin has been announced to be the first in a series of 24-karat gold coins that will also depict Liberty in designs representing Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Indian-Americans. The goal of these coins is to reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the USA.
Enigmatic whereabouts of 22kgs of gold in Africa
A private jet that carried two people and 22kgs of gold crashed recently in Kennilworth, Africa. Zimbabwe press media do not publish many details about the accident. All the information that is known is that the two people escaped with minor injuries and that the gold is worth nearly $1 million. Nothing about the identities of the two passengers or whereabouts of the 22kgs of gold.
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