The interesting case

The second interesting case is the mysterious disappearance of the complete national treasury of Romania. During World War I Romania was on the side of the Entente Powers. At the beginning of the military campaign Romania was heavily losing to Germany. The situation turned out to be so bad that very soon German troops occupied Romanian capital Bucharest. Romain administration had no other choice but to send its Treasure abroad. There were heated discussions related to which Entente country would safekeep the Treasure until bad times are over. In this hard situation the decision had been made to send Romanian Treasure to tsarist Russia and keep it there until the end of the war.

So, one night almost hundred tonnes of gold bars and coins with the total cost of 1.25 billion dollars were sent to Moscow and safely got there. However, Romanian military situation was not improving and got even worse after the departure of the first transport. This was the reason why the second transport left for Russia. It included priceless items, like jewels of Romanian royalty, jewels of ancient rulers, jewels dated to the time of Roman empire and antique jewels of the pre-Roman epoque. But this was not all.

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