$BTC Countries with the largest gold reserves 1. 🇺🇸 United States — 8,133.5 t 2. 🇩🇪 Germany — 3,350.3 t 3. 🇮🇹 Italy — 2,451.8 t 4. 🇫🇷 France — 2,437.0 t 5. 🇷🇺 Russia — 2,326.5 t 6. 🇨🇳 China — 2,306.3 t 7. 🇨🇭 Switzerland — 1,039.9 t 8. 🇮🇳 India — 880.1 t 9. 🇯🇵 Japan — 845.9 t 10. 🇹🇷 Turkey — 613.1 t 11. 🇳🇱 Netherlands — 612.5 t 12. 🇵🇱 Poland — 550.2 t 13. 🇹🇼 Taiwan — 423.9 t 14. 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan — 390.3 t 15. 🇵🇹 Portugal — 382.7 t 16. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan — 341.0 t 17. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 323.1 t 18. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 310.3 t 19. 🇱🇧 Lebanon — 286.8 t 20. 🇪🇸 Spain — 281.6 t 21. 🇦🇹 Austria — 280.0 t 22. 🇹🇭 Thailand — 234.5 t 23. 🇧🇪 Belgium — 227.4 t 24. 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan — 200.0 t 25. 🇸🇬 Singapore — 193.5 t
Pecunia non olet - money doesn't smell I'm not hoarding any cryptocurrency
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The case of Vespasian. When Vespasian's son, Titus, reproached his father for introducing a tax on public toilets, the emperor held a coin from the first revenues up to his son's nose and asked if it smelled; upon the negative reply, Vespasian remarked that money still comes from 'urine'—
The toilet tax. The tax was indeed imposed on revenues from public toilets and the sale of urine (which was used in leather production and other crafts), thus the anecdote illustrates Vespasian's practical approach to filling the treasury