The 5-Day Royal Gold Convoy: How Australia's Greatest Treasure Vanished Into Anonymous History Every Monday morning, a heavily guarded gold escort wagon departed Hill End on a five-day journey to Sydney, carrying fortunes in gold including the remains of the famous specimen! The Queen's official agent (the mining registrar) oversaw these royal shipments to the Macquarie Street Mint, where our "star-struck" treasure met its "final anonymity"—the celebrity gold that made headlines across Australia