Gold coins pop out of this ATM

The well-heeled in the Gulf can now grab "gold to go" from a hotel lobby in the United Arab Emirates, when the need for a quick ingot strikes. The machine, itself covered in 24-carat gold, dispenses one, five and 10 gram bars as well as one ounce bars of gold. Installed beneath the gold-coated ceilings of Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace hotel, where royalty and billionaires come for cappuccinos topped with gold flakes, the machine almost seems part of the furniture.

 man uses an ATM (automated teller machine) at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi. It's the ultimate hole-in-the-wall -- a money machine that dispenses pure gold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Customers use a gold-plated ATM machine at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi.

x Oriente Lux CEO Thomas Geissler (L) and an Emirati official unveil a gold-plated ATM (automated teller machine) at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi.

Thomas Geissler (C), the chief executive of TG-Gold-Super-Markt, tries the "Gold to Go" vending machine at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi.

A man shows a 10-gram gold ingot which he purchased from the "Gold to Go" vending machine at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi.

An Emirati man tries the "Gold to Go" vending machine at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi. 

 

 

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