The Mercedes-Benz Luton van can carry a volume of up to 20 cubic metres
All the gold that has ever been mined-- some 166,000 [metric] tonnes of it-- could fit into a crate measuring 20 cubic metres [706.29333443 cubic feet].... and the other thing about gold is that almost all of the metal that has been mined still exists... So if you hold a piece of gold in your hand, chances that it was once smelted by the Incas, or was part of a buckle on a Roman centurion's sword melted down after the collapse of the Roman empire....
--Stephen Robinson, quoting Tony Dobra, a director of Baird & Co., gold dealer and smelter in the U.K., in "How to keep your money safe and make even more of it*), in Tatler, November 2011
*probably
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