“Private investors in Switzerland, Austria and Germany are lining up to buy gold bars the size of a credit card that can easily be broken into one gram pieces and used as payment in an emergency. Now Swiss refinery Valcambi, a unit of U.S. mining giant Newmont, wants to bring its ‘CombiBar’ to market in the United States and build up its sales presence India – the world’s largest consumer of gold where the precious metal has long served as a parallel currency. The ‘CombiBar’ – which has been dubbed a ‘chocolate bar’ because pieces can be easily broken off by hand into one gram squares.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/21/swiss-gold-idUSL5E8NL4N820121221
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