Bars generally carry lower price premiums than gold bullion coins. Bullion Silver Eagle coins do not have mintmarks. Coins made of valuable metal are stored in large quantities as bullion coins. The coin was created in order to compete with foreign 24-karat gold bullion coins. Executive Order 6102 forbade the hoarding of gold coin, bullion and gold certificates. Legal tender bullion coins are a separate entity to bullion gold. The ISO currency code for gold bullion is XAU. Major banks such as Goldman Sachs began immediately to short gold bullion. The iron ore provided much needed gold bullion, food and coal from Germany. The LBMA sets and promotes quality standards for gold and silver bullion bars. Barter and to some extent silver bullion was used instead for trade. Due to the presence of so much gold bullion on site, security is high. The courthouse building was paid for in part with gold bullion. He then "escaped to America with $10,000,000" of Tong gold bullion.