How did Governments (read central bank puppets) build a Strategic Gold Reserve?

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Pillage

Was there ever a SGR?

My understanding:

Gold coins > banks as custodians > banks issue notes fully backed > banks issue more notes than coins (fractional reserve) > central bank created as lender of last resort to local banks > local banks to deposit assets at central bank

Exec order 6102.

World war 1 and especially 2.

Zinses Zins

Theft

They started wars on other people's continents and then swapped gold for lumps of exploding steel. Simple really.