I think the key can be found in the New York Times article...
“At a packed news conference, Bundesbank officials attended by armed security guards demonstrated on Wednesday how they tested the bars for quality and authenticity. No two bars have exactly the same weight and purity, so each must be assessed separately.”
Every bar is gonna have to be weighed (VERY carefully) and tested for purity. That’s gonna take a while.
well, it could take awhile to get it down to the last couple of percent accuracy
but the Germans can test it “pretty close” by just using a bath tub and a high school student who has learned about Archimedes
I bet the Germans will be very happy to clear out their gold now that way (if it is there!)
PSW: Stealing another country’s gold (or just “not letting them have it when they want it”) is, of course, an open Act of War....
Hahaha, stuff em with tungsten, sorta like what we did during the mortgage crisis by bundling crap with good stuff and stiffing Europe. We are good at dat!