India’s passion for gold has led to a rise in its current account deficit, which reached an all-time high of 5.4% of gross domestic product in the July-September quarter.

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The US Mint announced another 300,000 silver eagles sold Monday, bringing the 6 day sales total to an astonishing (and record pace) of 5.082 million ounces

The US Federal Reserves holds 45 percent of Germany's 3396 tons of gold while the Bank of England holds 13 percent and the Bank of France holds 11 percent. The rest is with the Bundesbank headquarters in Frankfurt.

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The bicentenary of Australia's first coins, the Holey Dollar and Dump, has been recognised on Australia's first coin of the year in the traditional coin strike on New Year's Day at the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra.

Gold prices and the largest focused ETF, SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca: GLD), have been in a downtrend since the fourth quarter of 2012, although the 200-day simple moving average has provided support recently.

The American Eagle Silver Proof Coins are struck using .999 fine silver blanks that are specially treated and cleaned to ensure high-quality strikes.

Money-lender Datta, 32, from Pimpri-Chinchwad, says the shirt took a team of 15 goldsmiths two weeks to make working 16 hours a day.

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department will not mint a high-value platinum coin to avert the debt ceiling, according to an official statement from the Obama administration obtained by the Huffington Post on Saturday.

India is the largest importer of gold. In 2011-12, the country imported gold worth $62 billion as compared to $43 billion in the preceding year.

World's largest gold consumer India's current account deficit widened to 4.2 per cent of GDP in 2011-12, and had touched a record high of 5.4 per cent during in the July-September quarter of the current fiscal.