I’ve met motorcycle couriers who’ve taken $97m (worth at prevailing price back then) in US T Bonds across London in a bag the size of a school satchel. That doesn’t beat £250m in bullion though, so fair dues.
I guess if they had been “Bearer” bonds instead - there might have been a bit more security surrounding such a dispatch.
These “notes” are basically 1000 certificate-sized sheets of paper currently worth around $152,000 per sheet as of Friday’s close. These paper bonds were only worth $97,000 each at the time though (Mid 90’s)
They still trade today as “legacy” paper, (30 year bonds issued between 1987 and 1997) but new bond issues these days are usually in electronic format only.
Dipper_Dave:
A Trident nuclear warhead approx 30million.
Driving 1/2 mile in front of the decoy armoured convoy. To the naked eye it just looked like a car and caravan.
Had an SBS soldier armed to the teeth and dressed in drag in the passenger seat and a couple of midget paratroopers in the back, we all looked like auditionees for a dodgy ■■■■ flick.
All was going great till I cut a truck up on the A9.
have done aircraft engines think most was 12 million, we werent allowed to carry 2 on same truck, also used run intel chips to limerick with Irish police ■■■■■■ once off the ferry, no idea how much load was worth tho
Processed Nickel from Clydach was quite pricey iirc don’t know the actual prices though, I’m assuming a trailer full of beer is worth a few quid too, tbh I’ve never really took much notice of the monitory value of whatever I had on.
Most expensive load I had nicked though was a full load of TVs (and the trailer too)… I was doing a drop and swap with another driver at a Truckstop near Solihull but he had already dropped the empty and parked up and removed his card by the time I got to him so he didn’t get under the loaded trailer that i’d just dropped off, anyway later that night someone just drove into the supposed “secure parking” truckstop hitched up to it and drove off.
My TM showed me the cctv image taken from the truckstop which was completely useless as the truck had its lights on full beam and all you could make out on the image was the back half of the trailer the rest was just light glare.
The Police were so convinced that it was an inside job that there was an arrest warrant put out for me and the other driver, we were both requested to show at a local Police station at a certain day and time, it was only when they found the empty trailer in Liverpool the next day and that then led them to a gang with a 7.5 tonner via additional cctv footage that they realised we were nothing to do with it, thankfully they found the gang before we were due to report to the Police station so we didn’t get the third degree.
You’re confusing valuable and valued, to you they are highly valued but I wouldn’t give you a dime for them, I get enough grief off my own so I certainly wouldn’t buy any additional ear ache and whinging
I once moved Motzarts piano from the British museum along with various trinkets of dinosaurs bones and a well preserved Mammoth. We squeezed Tutan karman in the back and if that lot wasn’t enough cost wise I had the crown jewels in my cab. I could only estimate the value of billions of £s. I was paid £9.45p per hour so felt really special that day.
TezzDemon:
28 tonne of platinum granules from Enfield to Lübeck,Germany.Was worth £1.25million.
28 KILOS would be around £1.25million… 28 metric tonnes? approx 32 troy ounces to a kilo, $914 ( forexpf.ru/charts/2017-0526 … s=PLATINUM live price) per troy ounce, 28,000 kilos to 28 metric tonnes…
I make that $818,944,000 or £611,152,238.
I understand that this amount of platinum would represent over 10% of the entire stock of platinum on the planet…
UKtramp:
I once moved Motzarts piano from the British museum along with various trinkets of dinosaurs bones and a well preserved Mammoth. We squeezed Tutan karman in the back and if that lot wasn’t enough cost wise I had the crown jewels in my cab. I could only estimate the value of billions of £s. I was paid £9.45p per hour so felt really special that day.
You’d have to be well old to have met him, especially if you met his mummy.
I always thought twotankcarman was a rally driver who brought all his own diesel in from France to avoid paying any taxes at UK forecourts.
Meanwhile, I’d be lucky if I got to shop at Mammoth Hypermarket, ever get to drive a tractor with two tanks on it, get crowed by anything bar the jewels falling out of my overhead locker, and wonder WTF the natural history museum has done to all the skeletons of old we remember from our younger days…
TezzDemon:
28 tonne of platinum granules from Enfield to Lübeck,Germany.Was worth £1.25million.
28 KILOS would be around £1.25million… 28 metric tonnes? approx 32 troy ounces to a kilo, $914 ( forexpf.ru/charts/2017-0526 … s=PLATINUM live price) per troy ounce, 28,000 kilos to 28 metric tonnes…
I make that $818,944,000 or £611,152,238.
I understand that this amount of platinum would represent over 10% of the entire stock of platinum on the planet…
28 Kilos it is then, I guess.
Id think the OPs cargo would have been platinum coated silicon balls. I carried some of these from Esso Milford Haven, when it was being decommissioned, several years ago. We had three or four artics, and Esso supplied a security van with a dog and handler.
Valuable stuff, but anyone nicking it wouldnt have gotten rich flogging it at a boot sale. Dodgy booze and ■■■■ are easier to sell Id guess, and are far less traceable. Steal a modern car, and the first time it gets plugged in at a dealers youve lost it. Most anything with a chip in is identifable now isnt it?
TezzDemon:
28 tonne of platinum granules from Enfield to Lübeck,Germany.Was worth £1.25million.
28 KILOS would be around £1.25million… 28 metric tonnes? approx 32 troy ounces to a kilo, $914 ( forexpf.ru/charts/2017-0526 … s=PLATINUM live price) per troy ounce, 28,000 kilos to 28 metric tonnes…
I make that $818,944,000 or £611,152,238.
I understand that this amount of platinum would represent over 10% of the entire stock of platinum on the planet…
28 Kilos it is then, I guess.
Id think the OPs cargo would have been platinum coated silicon balls. I carried some of these from Esso Milford Haven, when it was being decommissioned, several years ago. We had three or four artics, and Esso supplied a security van with a dog and handler.
Valuable stuff, but anyone nicking it wouldnt have gotten rich flogging it at a boot sale. Dodgy booze and ■■■■ are easier to sell Id guess, and are far less traceable. Steal a modern car, and the first time it gets plugged in at a dealers youve lost it. Most anything with a chip in is identifable now isnt it?
We used to load the drums of that stuff out of Enfield, It was a catalyst used in oil refining and as you say very, very expensive It contained as well as platinum silver and gold, we used to load half a dozen or more trailer at a time and dump them on the road, we queried if was ok to leave them unattended they said as they are the only people in Europe capable of extracting the metals back from the used catalyst which was a very big process so they wouldn’t be buying back goods stolen from them, logical…
