US Mint ‘Gold Disks’ Made for Oil Payments to Saudi Arabia
Monday, December 3, 2012 23:27
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US Mint ‘Gold Disks’ Made for Oil Payments to Saudi Arabia
One of the things we find most exciting about reporting on the numismatic marketplace is coming across those things we either didn’t know beforehand, or finding obscure and unusual numismatic items. Just recently we came across one such item, the Gold Disks produced by the US mint for ARAMCO oil payments to Saudi Arabia after World War II.
Below are excerpts from two different articles we located, one from 1981 and the other from 1991.
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