Found - 6.9 Billion in gold (India)

ando · 04-07-2011 03:37PM

Anyone wana head to India and take our share by force? just saying. Desperate times and all

positron · 04-07-2011 03:38PM

ando wrote: »

..by force?

You could try sending Berty to talk them into a coma...

Biggins · 04-07-2011 03:40PM

positron wrote: »

You could try sending Berty to talk them into a coma...

All he'd have to do is read his semi-fiction book.

positron · 05-07-2011 09:19AM

Latest estimates have exceeded 1 trillion Indian Rupees which is about 20 billion USD approximately. There's also rumors that they have stopped publishing the figures due to security concerns.

State Government has said it again that this is the temple's property and will belong to the temple. And the Government will put security structures in place to assist the temple to protect it.

$20 billion is a vastly huge figure! But then it dawns on we owe many multiples of that to ECB, bond holders and what not.

Kev_ps3 · 05-07-2011 10:05AM

The Brits would have no doubt robbed it if they found it so nice job hiding it India!

Biggins · 05-07-2011 10:27AM

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

The Brits would have no doubt robbed it if they found it so nice job hiding it India!

Yea, it would have disappeared in to the vaults of the British queen along with the rest of her gold, diamonds and masterpieces.
Most likely the majority of them, never to be seen again.

positron · 05-07-2011 10:41AM

British Queen / some secret department must have a huge stash of these sort of stuff.

I can think of Nizam and other few really rich kingdoms that was destroyed by Brits in India, but they also had similar things going on in Africa, China, Far East etc too. May be some day the British secret stash of many hundreds of trillions will come to light too..! Serious challenge to DeBeers!

positron · 05-07-2011 10:48AM

Sorry to go on about the Nizam of Hydrabad, but if the current find that makes news across the world is worth $20 billion, Nizam's wealth was esimated to be around $210 billion - almost all of it - went to the British as 'security money' and various other frauds.

http://helloji.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/nizam-of-hyderabad-fifth-on-the-forbes-all-time-wealthiest/

Dyr · 05-07-2011 10:52AM

We should start digging on inishvickallane :mad:

previous user · 05-07-2011 12:01PM

I wonder whats behind the last door made of Iron? -anyone?

citizen_p · 05-07-2011 12:20PM

my guess is a bit of it will go to a museum for an exhibition and the rest will be stored away in the archives...

hopfully they don't just melt the stuff down... its gold a diamonds, its a luxury and has no great benifits aprt from dsplays of wealth, it should stay in the form it was made by the goldsmiths 300 years ago.

citizen_p · 05-07-2011 12:21PM

previous user wrote: »

I wonder whats behind the last door made of Iron? -anyone?

probly a crap prize, seems like the good ones were picked by other contestants...like a 17th century caravan or speed boat

citizen_p · 05-07-2011 12:27PM

positron wrote: »

British Queen / some secret department must have a huge stash of these sort of stuff.

The queen gets presents from foreign countries all the time, alot of it is really really cool
http://www.royal.gov.uk/The%20Royal%20Collection%20and%20other%20collections/GiftstotheQueen/Overview.aspx

http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/

Ellis Dee · 06-07-2011 07:45AM

positron wrote: »

Sorry to go on about the Nizam of Hydrabad, but if the current find that makes news across the world is worth $20 billion, Nizam's wealth was esimated to be around $210 billion - almost all of it - went to the British as 'security money' and various other frauds.

http://helloji.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/nizam-of-hyderabad-fifth-on-the-forbes-all-time-wealthiest/

I was in the Nizam's palace, now a museum, in Hyderabad last year. He certainly was loaded. Most of the wealth came from the Golconda diamond mines near the city. And I suppose most of it ended up, one way or another, in British pockets. :cool:

At least the wealth in Thiruvananthapuram (or Trivandrum, as the British called it) will be safe, as this article tells::)

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/article2160743.ece

Killer Pigeon · 06-07-2011 08:01AM

This comes to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNNhBtBbOs

positron · 15-12-2011 11:28AM

previous user wrote: »

I wonder whats behind the last door made of Iron? -anyone?

I heard it's a long list of people the King owes money to!

biko · 15-12-2011 11:42AM

Thread is from this summer. Why did you bring it back positron?

Jumpy · 15-12-2011 11:45AM

Because we never found out what was behind the iron door!

Paparazzo · 15-12-2011 11:53AM

tmc86 wrote: »

very interesting story! although 150 years doesn't sound too long ago to me for stashing that much gold and jewels.

lets hope they do put it to good use and only keep the very interesting pieces for use as national treasures. will be interesting to see what happens next!

Hmmm, interesting!

Outkast_IRE · 15-12-2011 12:00PM

Jumpy wrote: »

Because we never found out what was behind the iron door!

It was the arc of the covenant , the indians are not to be messed with now:D

Cuddlesworth · 15-12-2011 12:04PM

Jumpy wrote: »

Because we never found out what was behind the iron door!

From Wikipedia

"On 4 July 2011 the seven-member expert team tasked with taking stock of the temple assets decided to postpone opening of the chamber marked 'B'. This chamber is sealed with an iron door with the image of a cobra on it and it has not been opened, due to the belief opening it would result in much misfortune.[31] The royal family said that many legends were attached to the temple and that chamber B has a model of a snake on the main door and opening it could be a bad omen.[32] Seven-member team will consult with some more experts on 8 July 2011 and then they may take the final decision on opening of chamber ‘B’.[33] An Ashtamangala Devaprasnam conducted in the Temple to discern the will of the Lord revealed that any attempts to open the Chamber B would cause Divine displeasure and that the holy articles in the other chambers were defiled in the inventorying process."

Found - 6.9 Billion in gold (India)

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