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Thread started 06/18/17 9:51pm

Astasheiks

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Where did Prince get those Gold Bars he had in his Collection?

Spoke about here at 5:14

67 Gold Bars worth around $840,000 (approx. $12,537 each)

I be like hey brother man how about one of those gold bars! biggrin razz cool

And remember the song "Gold", in this case "all that glitters is gold" lol

[Edited 6/18/17 21:58pm]

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Reply #1 posted 06/19/17 9:58am

Genesia

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He bought them. lock

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Reply #2 posted 06/19/17 1:32pm

Astasheiks

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From where?
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Reply #3 posted 06/19/17 1:34pm

sro100

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As someone who sold gold for many years I can tell you that's a ridiculous questions; there are many, many, many, many places to buy gold bars.

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Reply #4 posted 06/19/17 2:05pm

RodeoSchro

Genesia said:

He bought them. lock




That's how he got them, not where he got them.

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Reply #5 posted 06/20/17 8:54am

Astasheiks

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Thank you RodeoSchro! biggrin

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Reply #6 posted 06/20/17 9:00am

Astasheiks

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I guess he stopped at 67 to got with 67 in Alphabet Street. smile

"I'm gonna drive my daddy's Thunderbird (My daddy's thunderbird)
A white rad ride, '66 ('67) so glam it's absurd
I'm gonna put her in the back seat
And drive her 2 ... Tennessee"

My boy, Prince, always interesting dude, not 60, 65 or 70 Gold Bars but 67.... lol eye wildsign crysball

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Reply #7 posted 06/20/17 10:42am

Tricky12

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Is that all your gold?
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Can U sleep nights?
Do U dream straight up or do U dream in W's?

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Answer the 2 of life and death
When it slaps him in the face?
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And all he's got is the sense 2 know
That a life of crime'll help him beat U in the race
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Reply #8 posted 06/20/17 11:34am

Astasheiks

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And whats the Bolded part explaining ...

Is that all your gold?
Where did it come from? What did U have 2 do? (did U have 2 do)
Can U sleep nights?
Do U dream straight up or do U dream in W's?

If its saying anything, he's implying about somebody else doing something illegal or immoral to get their gold. So what does that have to do with him having 67 Gold Bars???

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Reply #9 posted 06/20/17 2:04pm

Tricky12

Astasheiks said:

And whats the Bolded part explaining ...

Is that all your gold?
Where did it come from? What did U have 2 do? (did U have 2 do)
Can U sleep nights?
Do U dream straight up or do U dream in W's?

If its saying anything, he's implying about somebody else doing something illegal or immoral to get their gold. So what does that have to do with him having 67 Gold Bars???

You are the one making nefarious assumptions. I was being cheeky.

1. What he had to do; he had to sell himself and make that money baby!

2. Can you sleep at night? Nope, he sure didn't! He was rather well known to have played music well into the night wink

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Reply #10 posted 06/21/17 3:45am

Adorecream

That video was truly dreadful, rent a voice, dire spelling and ESOL errors on the subtitles and shitty generic images along with distorted ones of Prince.

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The Gold Bars are 10 ounces (313grams) which are really slivers rather than the 50 Pound(22kg) ingots shown in the clip. Investing in gold bullion was big in the 80s and plus Gold goes through ups and downs being at US$1300 an ounce now, it has varied from $350 to $3000 an ounce over the past 10 years. Much better investment than studios (Equipment dates real quick) and cars (Lose 30% once you drive them off the lot, rapid depreciation especially luxury cars). Plus they are expensive to run, a 6 Litre Bentley would take about 160 litres in its fuel tank.

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(Sorry we use metrics in 193 of the 196 countries of the world)

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Reply #11 posted 06/21/17 10:00am

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21st century....it ain´t about the money, it´s about the gold y´all.....money just got sold.

( <+0 1998, The War)

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Reply #12 posted 06/21/17 11:05am

Astasheiks

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Adorecream said:

That video was truly dreadful, rent a voice, dire spelling and ESOL errors on the subtitles and shitty generic images along with distorted ones of Prince.

.

The Gold Bars are 10 ounces (313grams) which are really slivers rather than the 50 Pound(22kg) ingots shown in the clip. Investing in gold bullion was big in the 80s and plus Gold goes through ups and downs being at US$1300 an ounce now, it has varied from $350 to $3000 an ounce over the past 10 years. Much better investment than studios (Equipment dates real quick) and cars (Lose 30% once you drive them off the lot, rapid depreciation especially luxury cars). Plus they are expensive to run, a 6 Litre Bentley would take about 160 litres in its fuel tank.

.

(Sorry we use metrics in 193 of the 196 countries of the world)

Thank you AC thats some nice information. How did you know he had the 10 ounces rather than the 50 lbs ones?

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Reply #13 posted 06/21/17 3:58pm

Adorecream

Astasheiks said:

Adorecream said:

That video was truly dreadful, rent a voice, dire spelling and ESOL errors on the subtitles and shitty generic images along with distorted ones of Prince.

.

The Gold Bars are 10 ounces (313grams) which are really slivers rather than the 50 Pound(22kg) ingots shown in the clip. Investing in gold bullion was big in the 80s and plus Gold goes through ups and downs being at US$1300 an ounce now, it has varied from $350 to $3000 an ounce over the past 10 years. Much better investment than studios (Equipment dates real quick) and cars (Lose 30% once you drive them off the lot, rapid depreciation especially luxury cars). Plus they are expensive to run, a 6 Litre Bentley would take about 160 litres in its fuel tank.

.

(Sorry we use metrics in 193 of the 196 countries of the world)

Thank you AC thats some nice information. How did you know he had the 10 ounces rather than the 50 lbs ones?

It says it in the video. Also gold is $1300 an ounce, so a $13,000 gold bar must be 10 ounces.

A pound would cost about $21k and 50 pounds would cost over $1 million, Prince's gold holding was 500 ounces or 31 pounds and 4 ounces in total.

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Also I am coin collector and know a bit about gold bullion, even though I only have a few silver rounds.

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Reply #14 posted 06/21/17 4:02pm

DD55

Adorecream said:

Astasheiks said:

Thank you AC thats some nice information. How did you know he had the 10 ounces rather than the 50 lbs ones?

It says it in the video. Also gold is $1300 an ounce, so a $13,000 gold bar must be 10 ounces.

A pound would cost about $21k and 50 pounds would cost over $1 million, Prince's gold holding was 500 ounces or 31 pounds and 4 ounces in total.

.

Also I am coin collector and know a bit about gold bullion, even though I only have a few silver rounds.

They weren't specific about how the metal was weighted.

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Gold and Silver are weighed in Troy ounces
1 Troy ounce = 0.0685714 lb/10 oz = 0.685714 lb

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there is room for confusion.

DD55

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Reply #15 posted 06/21/17 4:10pm

Astasheiks

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Adorecream said:

Astasheiks said:

Thank you AC thats some nice information. How did you know he had the 10 ounces rather than the 50 lbs ones?

It says it in the video. Also gold is $1300 an ounce, so a $13,000 gold bar must be 10 ounces.

A pound would cost about $21k and 50 pounds would cost over $1 million, Prince's gold holding was 500 ounces or 31 pounds and 4 ounces in total.

.

Also I am coin collector and know a bit about gold bullion, even though I only have a few silver rounds.

very cool. I was so fascinated with the approx. worth $840,000; I missed that in the video. lol

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