Blog number eighty-four 21 March 2007
I was watching Keith Olbermann (interesting guy) on television yesterday and one of his topics was this cube of gold on display in Japan, It was about ten inches cubed, sides rounded off, Japanese characters stamped on each side.
It was housed in a Lucite plastic domed cover with several holes large enough that visitors could reach in and pet the cube.
There was no alarm system, no guards, and the entrance to the "museum" was through a natural cave. Mr. Oberman's last words on the subject was, "You guessed it. It's gone."
Then today I'm reading a book about this mercenary in Java, and this sentence comes up, " ...he had always paid his bills with cash on the nail, usually small cubical gold ingots ..."
Java is in the Pacific Rim, Japan is in the Pacific Rim. Was this huge ingot on display in Japan just a large Pacific Rim "common currency?"
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