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4 What was the biggest piece of gold?

We exhibited a gold ingot, a big bar of solid gold that weighed 450 troy ounces, or just about 30 pounds. We got that from a miner who was still mining up in the Sierra Mountains. He cast it from the gold he had found and lent it to us. We tried to get a bar from the federal mint at Fort Knox, but they wouldn't lend us one.
Tom Frye

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