Much of that gold, the United States argues, was later smelted into " monetary gold " that had been stolen from central banks around Europe.
22.
These additional claims gave rise to a new ICJ case, " Monetary Gold Removed from Rome in 1943 ", which Italy commenced on 9 May 1953.
23.
At the time, U . S . officials estimated that the Swiss National Bank had between $ 414 million and $ 800 million in looted monetary gold.
24.
The $ 2.7 billion was put in the hands of a U . S ., British and French panel, the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold.
25.
There are accounts from the Nuremberg trials, from the National Archives, from eyewitnesses and survivors of the camps that private gold was mixed with the so-called monetary gold.
26.
The main categories in the classification of financial instruments are monetary gold and special drawing rights; currency and deposits; pension funds reserves; and other accounts receivable / payable.
27.
The second question is this : was the " monetary gold " intermingled with gold looted from the private safes of Jews and others in countries the Nazis occupied?
28.
The $ 2 . 7 billion was put in the hands of a U . S ., British and French panel, the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold.
29.
"If any monetary gold was mixed with nonmonetary gold, it is impossible to say how much that might have been, " said Francis Richards, the British representative at the conference.
30.
With the end of its work, the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold, made up of the United States, Britain and France, opened its archives to the public.
