[Defiant]

Was it left over from Alexander?

[MUDDOG]

Certainly Alexander got a lot of gold from his conquests, but that was 800 years before Anastasius, so I'm sure it was long dispersed.

I've meant to look into a timeline of how much gold has been mined since the beginning of history, who had it, how much came from the New World, etc.

My 1965 Britannica has some of it, I think, but I can never remember it unless I write it down.