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GOLD AN ASSET CLASS
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2004
KRUGER MILLIONS
1904 - 2004
100 YEAR COMMEMORATIVE
2 OUNCES OF GOLD
24ct 1.75 oz BAR
WITH 22ct 8gram Z A R GOLD POND
A NUMISMATIC ASSET OF INTEREST
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According to myth about two million pounds in buried gold and diamonds lie hidden in the Blyde River area in the province of Mpumalanga. Here we explore the mystery of the hidden “Kruger Millions”. The treasure is said to consist of hidden gold and coins worth more than US $500,000,000 in today’s terms. Allegedly the treasure was hidden by or for President Paul Kruger at the end of the South African Boer War somewhere between 1899 and 1902. The amount might be exaggerated, but it might also be the largest undiscovered treasure in the world. If you look at the reports, the total gold production from 1884 to 1900, exceeded R170 million, at the price of gold then, which was R8,50 per Troy ounce. No official records say just how much of this belonged to the Government, but it is known that the Paul Kruger's Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek Government mined gold before they evacuated the Witwatersrand in 1900 and it is also known that nine days before the outbreak of the war, the Transvaal Government, headed by Kruger, seized the gold that was about to be shipped to Europe.
The legend of the Kruger Millions is definitely not just a story developed in modern times. Neville Chamberlain at the House of Commons in England, in 1902, met with the ZAR Generals, who came to see him to obtain financial assistance for the widows and orphans of the war. Chamberlain was quite prepared to let the Generals have, for the benefit of the widows and orphans of course, much of the Transvaal State Funds as had been transmitted to Europe by Kruger, which were still unspent, if they would help him (Chamberlain) to lay his hands upon them. Botha expressed his readiness to do so, but denied that any such funds actually ever existed.
The State Attorney, who, incidentally, was in fact Field Marshal J. C. Smuts, the Auditor-General and the other officials took the coins and gold that Smuts had collected from the ZAR mint, to President Kruger at Middelburg. The Members of the Volksraad and all highly placed officials realized what the position was then, and co-operated fully with the President. It was decided by the Government that Kruger should take leave of absence, for about six months, as the days of the burghers’ possession of the railway line were clearly numbered and the chance of Kruger falling into the hands of the enemy could not be taken. This would mean the remaining Z.A.R. forces would surrender and the Government’s coins and gold stash would be lost. The latter danger was of course known to only the top officials, generals and Volksraad members. Kruger sailed to Holland on the Gelderland on the 19th October, 1900. The British tried to encourage the view that he had deserted his post and many sources tried to imply that he had taken the coins and bullion, for his own benefit
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