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How do you move 700 tons of gold? Very quietly

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Gold ingots are on display during a press conference of Germany's Central Bank Wednesday at their headquarters in Frankfurt.

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The high-stakes, high-security plan is to move the precious metal — 374 tons kept in vaults in Paris and 300 tons stored at the New York Federal Reserve Bank — to the Bundesbank in Germany's financial center over the next eight years.