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Voucher - 1 Gram Gold Certificate
| Issuer | AMP (Asset Management Partners), Cyprus |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | GOLD CERTIFICATE AMP CONVERTIBLE WAREHOUSE RECEIPT THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN ISSUED AGAINST A PURCHASE OF GOLD FOR THE STATED WEIGHT AND PURITY STANDARD, AND IS GIVEN IN EXCHANGE OF EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ONE 1 GRAM .9999 Fine GOLD ON EXERCISE TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND By Order of the Board Cyprus 10th November 2011 ONE GOLD GRAM MIDAS SERIES |
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| Reverse lettering | GOLD CERTIFICATE AMP 1 GOLD GRAM GOLD CERTIFICATE CERTIFICAT D'OR CERTIFICATO DI ORO GOLD ZERTIFIKAT СЕРТИФИКАТ НА ЗОЛОТО 1 gram GOLD gramme D'OR grammo D'ORO gramm GOLD грамм ЗОЛОТА For this certificate to be valid, an AMP Sales Invoice must have been issued recording its unique serial number and entails full payment. Valid for twenty (20) years from date of issue |
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AMP's gold certificate program was one of several private commodity-backed voucher schemes that proliferated in the post-2008 environment, when institutional distrust of fiat currency drove retail demand for physically redeemable paper instruments. Cyprus was a convenient jurisdiction — light-touch financial regulation and an established offshore services sector made it attractive for exactly this kind of quasi-banking product, years before the 2012–2013 banking crisis forced a dramatic rethink of the island's financial model.
The foil strip is the only security concession on an otherwise plainly produced piece. Whether AMP's physical gold reserves ever matched outstanding certificate obligations is not a matter of public record.