Operation Fish
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Operation Fish was the relocation of British money and gold ingots from the United Kingdom to Canada for safekeeping during the Second World War. It was the largest known movement of physical wealth i
HMS Bonaventure was forced to remain stationary for a time to protect a treasure ship
HMS Enterprise, one of the treasure ships
The Sun Life Building in Montreal in 1942
Commemorative plaque at the Martins Bank Building in Liverpool
Moscow Gold (Spain)
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The Moscow Gold, or alternatively Gold of the Republic, was 510 tonnes of gold, corresponding to 72.6% of the total gold reserves of the Bank of Spain, that were transferred from their original locati
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…Treasury - the transfer of Norway's gold reserves to the United States via the United Kingdom, to avoid them falling into the hands of Nazi Germany. Moscow gold (Spain) – gold reserves sent by Republican Spain to the Soviet Union during the Spanish Civil War Romanian Treasure, gold reserves sent (alongside other…
Northern façade of the Bank of Spain in Madrid. Most of the gold reserves held inside until 1936 were sent to the Soviet Union during the Spanish Civil War.
Royal Customs House (Spanish: Real Casa de la Aduana), Madrid, central headquarters of the Ministry of Finance
View of the Atocha railway station of Madrid.
Coins made up 99.8% of Bank of Spain transferred gold, 70% of which were sovereigns (pictured) and half-sovereigns.