Part of a letter bearing a hand-written list of gold bars plundered by the Japanese Golden Lily during WW11 and stashed on the Philippines.  The first item shows a quantity of 5000 x 56 kilogram bars that originated in Sumatra.  Others bars came from Cambodia and Siam.  Collectively, these amounted to 3148 metric tonnes of bullion with a value of approximately $3 billion 

 

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