A GOLD BAR

Description:

Vietnam, 1955 - 1975
9,5 x 3,8 cm
Kim Thanh (gold plate). With place and fineness indications in Latin letters and Chinese characters: Saigon, Hong Kong, Hanoi, Pnompenh and OR PUR. Above and below two circles each, inside TT. 15.87 gr., 999/000
From the Ludwig Bretschneider Collection (1909-1987), collected until the 1950s and early 1970s - These bars were used by refugees from Vietnam that were escaping to Hong Kong, Cambodia and the US for safety during the fall of Saigon - Very minor traces of age