SideNote: I wish I was wrong, but with each passing year and month, its looking more-and-more like the Joe-Six-Pacs of the world will wakeup late, realizing the end game of all fiat currencies has arrived, and they will find regulations in place against owning/buying physical PMs, real money. Because those in control of the NWO will not allow any other currency to compete against their new world digital currencies. GRIM

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As it turns out, panic it was, but of a different type, with the long lines triggered by the realization that from 1 January 2020, new national legislation was to take effect that would dramatically reduce the threshold on anonymous buying of precious metals from the existing €10,000 limit (US$ 11,150) to a far lower limit of €2000 (US$ 2,230), all under the guise of money laundering prevention.

Börse Online, Germany's leading investor magazine, summed up the situation in its 13 December article "Supply shortages at gold traders: 'We are overrun, the queues go up into the street'":

"Large gold traders such as Pro Aurum and Degussa are currently experiencing massive bottlenecks in gold products, and customers are literally buying their shelves empty. "We are currently being overrun," says Raphael Scherer, managing director at Degussa Edelmetalle. "The queues go up into the street." 

It is similar with Pro Aurum. Like Degussa, the company is one of the largest gold traders in Europe. "We are currently seeing a tripling of the normal order volume - both online and in the branches," says Robert Hartmann from Pro Aurum".

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