the uk government holds 310.29 metric tonnes of gold.
how much gold does the uk government hold?
310.29 metric tonnes
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"i...asked your father mimmureya for statues of solid cast gold, one of myself and a second statue, a statue of tadu-heba [tadukhepa], my daughter, and your father said, 'don't talk of giving statues just of solid cast gold. i will give you ones made also of lapis lazuli. i will give you too, along with the statues, much additional gold and [other] goods beyond measure.' every one of my messengers that were staying in egypt saw the gold for the statues with their own eyes. your father himself recast the statues [i]n the presence of my messengers, and he made them entirely of pure gold...he showed much additional gold, which was beyond measure and which he was sending to me. he said to my messengers, 'see with your own eyes, here the statues, there much gold and goods beyond measure, which i am sending to my brother.' and my messengers did see with their own eyes! but my brother [i.e., akhenaten] has not sent the solid [gold] statues that your father was going to send. you have sent plated ones of wood. nor have you sent me the goods that your father was going to send me, but you have reduced [them] greatly. yet there is nothing i know of in which i have failed my brother. any day that i hear the greetings of my brother, that day i make a festive occasion... may my brother send me much gold. [at] the kim[ru fe]ast...[...with] many goods [may my] brother honor me. in my brother's country gold is as plentiful as dust. may my brother cause me no distress. may he send me much gold in order that my brother [with the gold and m]any [good]s may honor me." (ea 27)
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