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during the Napoleonic Wars, and to purchase the precious metal at a oay the troops on foreign premium in service . Suddenly th ‘overnment had AAA the Oraer: FO e premium rose much hisher , for the Government hac ound an unexpected compet- tor in my Grandfather who bought up all the gold he eould sec- -ure, declining the very profitable offers he received. 1 oY ris stock from the Government brokers. Gold grew scarcer and dearer , the bullion brokers increased tneLlr oLfers, But vO their intense and the wonderment o dismay where the financiers could not fathom wha ne versisted in declining them. AG decided to send so embarrassed th personal interview he was invited for his gold. He replied by at once hand refusing to take an) this service to the State h appointed financial azent to the vally profited far more in b orisinally accepted the tempting offers o brokers - who né ‘forgave him . So and self-cc in one who was not yet SH1USi. chance, a! the 'forties' Frankfort was ab town of considerable financial and financial importance was due to the fact eee ~ CENnLES OF } several sme were swept under ct at the time I write of, t last the P e Government, nosition than if he p much y i political principalities, which the banner of Imperial Ge the entire City, 1is motive might be, overnment became or my Grandfather,and name his own price ng over his stock to profit on the trans- was rewarded by and event- 1aa the Government foresight, judgment a pillar of the Ex- ight and busy little importance. Its being in 1866 = rmany , but wnicn ransacted their affairs with the (op)