bullion

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Gold or silver considered with respect to quantity rather than value.
• noun Gold or silver in the form of bars, ingots, or plates.
• noun A heavy lace trimming made of twisted gold or silver threads.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A boss; a stud; a showy metallic ornament either of gold or in imitation of gold, as a button, stud, hook, clasp, buckle, and the like.
• noun A fringe of thick twisted cords, such as will hang heavily.
• noun In glass-making, that part of the spheroidal mass of glass which has been attached to the pontil, after being blown and while undergoing the process of fattening into a sheet. When the tube is detached, it is called the bull's-eye (which see).
• noun A measure of capacity (of salt).
• noun Gold or silver in the mass; gold or silver smelted and not perfectly refined, or refined but in bars, ingots, or any uncoined form, as plate.
• noun Uncurrent coin; coin received only at its metallic value.
• noun Figuratively, gold, as a sordid thing; mere wealth; mammon.
• noun A mint or assay-office.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.
• noun obsolete Base or uncurrent coin.
• noun obsolete Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
• noun Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
• noun obsolete base or uncurrent coin
• noun obsolete showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
• noun obsolete A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun gold or silver in bars or ingots
• noun a mass of precious metal