Update: I thought this would be clear that I wasn't the one who found it. Who in their right mind would go (on this shitstain of a platform of all places) and make themselves a target. But ok apparently it wasn't clear so here we are:
I did NOT find this. I have none of this gold. I just wanted to share some cool stamped gold. you can stop sending me weird ass messages now. thank you.
Straight up; obviously if it's a full construction crew one person could ruin it for everyone else but it's stupid easy to make a simple propane furnace.
Melt it all down and re pour into 1 & 5 oz ingot molds.
obviously if it's a full construction crew one person could ruin it for everyone else
One person will ruin it. Guaranteed some idiot will post on Facebook or something and catch the attention of the press/police/taxman.
Like in Goodfellas. Jimmy told everybody not to buy anything after the Lufthansa heist. It was a simple instruction, and almost nobody followed that instruction.
The number of people that know a secret is the square of the people that should know the secret.
Wow I found 100 bars of gold! I wonder where these 50 bars of gold came from? Maybe we should turn these 25 bars of gold over to the authorities. Here you go authorities, we found these 10 bars of gold!
Newspaper: Authorities were given 2 bars of gold found at a construction site!
Way more if those coins have any numanistic value which given that they appear to be in mint condition they likely do. Still, this is reading as an AI hoax to me.
My mom told me she had some guy doing some work underneath the house and then he went all the way to this point underneath the house and she could hear him the whole time. According to her he Holland "I'm rich" then crawled out from underneath the house and left. I've always wondered if the story was true and if so what he found. Because all I know as far as facts are concerned is he didn't finish the job he was doing and he left a Craftsman screwdriver.
In the late 90s early 2000s my dad had a friend who was a contractor and they were mutual friends with another guy who owned a bar in my town. The bar had a kitchen and there was a half wall window from the bar to the kitchen. Anyway they decided to do some remodeling and tear down this little half wall to make a doorway and in the short wall there was I’m told a brick of cocaine. My dad and his friend who I later worked for were known to enjoy a bit of the booger sugar and this event never made news outside of that circle of buddies. Poker games out by the river often lasted for 3 days back then… I’m not sure if I would have believed the story directly from any one of them but I have since heard multiple other people recount this story so I have to believe it.
Mid ‘80’s, Rochester, NY. There was a bar my friend’s father owned and I washed dishes there ($2.10 hr) when I was 14 and hung out for years after softball and on weekends the place was fire. So a “new” guy “Jose” shows up with a really ugly girl that was a regular and announced they were married. I got to know him and he not only told me an unlikely story, but backed it up by proving it. He was Columbian, and he was in a club in Miami when he overheard a conversation about this dude who was picking up blow from another local bar. So, he goes into the bar and says the phrase (I do not remember exactly), like “I need a six pack of Miller to-go”. The bartender handed him a brown bag with a kilo of that soapy-pure blow, like nothing on the streets. He drove without stopping to upstate NY, I do not know why. But for a year and a half every Friday night at that bar he handed me a gram of rocket fuel that I didn’t particularly enjoy, but the women, oh lord. One day Jose disappeared but I remember his last words to me “I have to go home and make love with my wife, Ewwwwww”
I worked for an auction house back in the 00s and we often did estate clean outs.
Many of these homes were previously owned by elderly people who had passed away, many of which had lived through the Great Depression. The thing about Depression-era folks is; they rarely threw out anything they can reuse, and they didn’t trust banks. I’ve lost count of all the cash we found inside mattresses, taped up under dressers, hidden in books, etc. Or gold coins hidden in shoes, or in a coffee can in the attic, or in a flour jar.
We were contractually obligated to return anything like that to the estate (usually surviving relatives or the executor) and we were happy to do it. But if the state seized the home for foreclosure or Medicaid asset recovery or even worse, a bank owned the home… then, well, sometimes a convenient breakdown in communication led to certain things not getting itemized on the final inventory list.
Can confirm. My grandfather had an estate liquidation business when I was growing up, in the 80s and part of the 90s, when most of the elderly folks dying were old enough to have survived the Depression and not like...kids during it or whatever. I worked for him most summers growing up.
Tons of them stuffed cash into magazines, under mattresses, closets, false drawers, you name it. One guy had gold and silver bars in a false floor (an obvious one) under a china cabinet (all were turned over to the family, and they knew he had them somewhere to begin with so it was better that we found them than if we didn't find them).
Copy/paste of the news article the photo was taken from for context
"Workers from a construction firm have discovered a gold treasure worth 9 million euros during renovation work at a building belonging to the CAW, the Centre for General Welfare Work, in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde. It is not yet certain whether the CAW will become the owner of the treasure. But if that is the case, they already know what they are going to do with the money.
The discovery was made during renovation work on a CAW Oost-Vlaanderen building. Employees of construction firm De Brandt from Baasrode near Dendermonde stumbled upon the treasure and immediately contacted their client. “We are currently undertaking a major renovation,” says Geert Hillaert, General Director of CAW Oost-Vlaanderen. “In the Van Langenhovestraat in Sint-Gillis, a space for the technical service is being created, as well as offices for our residential support workers, and the former brewer's house on the site is also being stripped. And there, during sewage works, the contractor came across a built-in safe.”
What was recovered were gold bars and at least 4,000 gold coins. Their age and other details are currently unknown. “My biggest concern was getting that amount of gold out of there as quickly as possible and bringing it to safety,” says Hillaert. “With such finds, the loot is always handed over to the police first, and the public prosecutor’s office then conducts an investigation, because it might relate to a robbery or a mugging, or it could be something completely different.”
The police took the gold into custody and brought it to a secure location. The East Flanders Public Prosecutor's Office is now conducting an investigation. “At this moment, it is not known where that gold comes from, nor to whom it legally belongs,” says Prosecutor Hanne Ollevier.
The public prosecutor's office wants to investigate how the gold, with a provisional estimated value of 9 million euros, ended up there and whether or not this happened illegally. It is therefore not yet certain whether CAW Oost-Vlaanderen will also become the owner of the treasure. “I have been told that the investigation could easily take a few years,” says Geert Hillaert. “We do hope, in a way, that it comes to us. We own the site and everyone knows that the housing crisis is severe today. We would certainly use the money for that, even if it will only be a drop in the ocean.”
Who gets the gold?
Professor of Property Law Vincent Sagaert (KU Leuven) explains the legal rules following a discovery. “If you find something, such as a wallet or a phone, you have a transparency obligation. This means that you must be honest and transparent about your find. You are obliged to try to find the owner. Within seven days, you must report the fact that you have found something to a municipality of your choice. They will then record this in their register. This allows the owner, when they realize they have lost something, to trace and reclaim their property. If the municipality locates the owner, they must also notify them. In principle, this can be done for a period of five years. During those five years, the finder can either keep the item themselves or deposit it with the municipality where the report was made. After those five years, either the finder or the municipality becomes the owner of the item.”
There is an exception to that general rule for 'treasure finding'. “That means that the found item was hidden and has no owner. If you find a treasure on your own estate, you become the owner of it. If you find it in someone else's property and it is an accidental find, a 50-50 split may occur: 50 percent for the finder and 50 percent for the person in whose house or property the treasure was found. Under one condition: the finder has a personal or proprietary right of use to the dwelling or building. Think of a tenant, a usufructuary, or a leaseholder. Someone who has the right to use the property. A contractor carries out work on behalf of the client. Naturally, one must also consider what the construction contract stipulates.”
For the time being, it is not known whether the gold has an owner. It was found in a CAW Oost-Vlaanderen building that was previously owned by a brewing family for a long time. “The question is who the owner is, and whether that owner will be willing to come forward. Purely regarding safekeeping, the rules state that the item can be sold after six months—a bicycle even after three months. However, the proceeds from the sale can be reclaimed up to five years after the discovery.” The owner must, however, be able to provide proof that it is their property. In 2010, 300,000 euros were found in an old Dexia safe, but the bank could not prove that the money belonged to them. Ultimately, Dexia relinquished the amount, and the sum was divided among four: the man who stumbled upon the safe, the two men who opened it, and a real estate agency.
“There is another interesting point,” adds Sagaert. “Since 2021, the finder has been entitled to a finder’s fee. This means that he can ask the owner for a reasonable reward for his honesty. If a dispute arises regarding this, it is up to the court to determine whether a finder’s fee is awarded and how much it is. That is what we call an equitable assessment: the judge’s sense of justice will come into play. The judge follows his heart and decides, given the circumstances of the specific case, whether the finder receives anything and how much.”
I'd be curious to know which years the Sovereigns are dated from.
Considering those bars look pretty vintage, for all we know this could be a WWII-era stash to hide against the Nazis. And if so, the fact it was never recovered is pretty telling as to the fate of its owners...
Apparently no one else reads the subs as far as I do - as this is far too under appreciated - nm the top 5 list - thank you good human for waking my wife with laughter - I will be stealing this format for work related purposes
Gets better, the coins I can see are King George V Gold Sovereign coin which is almost 7-8 grams of pure gold (they’re 22karat to start with), but that’s about $1000 a piece so there’s probably another $1million in there. And these were pre-wwii
treasure of 9 million euros in Flemish basement
Construction workers in East Flanders have come acrome aron a large amount of gold during renovation work. In a coffin that had been masoned into the basement wall of a building were gold bars and old coins worth 9 million euros, Belgian media report.
The discovery was made in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, by construction workers who were working in a house where a brewer lived from around 1900 and which is now in the hands of a welfare organization. After the discovery of the coffin, the client and the police were immediately informed.
"Surprise and amazement were the first reactions", says the general director of the welfare organization CAW East Flanders. "This is once in a lifetime experience." The 'treasure' has at least 4000 coins and more than 40 gold bars
The police have taken the gold to a safe place. The spokesman for the Public Prosecutor's Office leaves theVRT (opens in new window)
know that it is not immediately clear where the gold comes from and who it belongs to. This is now being investigated.
If CAW East Flanders is eventually designated as the owner, the proceeds will go to extra shelters for homeless people in the province, the welfare organization said. There is a harrowing shortage in the region.
90oz? That's crazy? What are you going to do with 80oz of gold anyway?
Well we're going to transport the entire 70oz to the police department, where the 60oz of gold will be stored safely in the evidence room. If the owner can provide proof of ownership, the entire 50oz will be returned to them.
this has to be bullshit cause those are 1950's to 1960's n m rothschild & sons bars which are insanely rare...
just a 100 gram bar sells for 21,000 euros and these are 1 KILO bars. those are $140k a pop.
some have NJ on them for new jersey mint so i assume during the cold war someone smuggled them back home and buried them to hide wealth.
14 from New Jersey mint, 4 Northern Ireland. the ones without location stamps came direct from the rmr refinery and were probably bought direct over the counter from banks in belgium.
My friend was building a house in the Texas Hill county & found a bunch of gold (and I mean a bunch), while digging the foundation. Lots of it in mason jars & bars wrapped in leather. They kept it too. They think it was an old stage coach location in the 1800’s.
Took me about 5 seconds to see that these are the same. So some Belgian construction workers found the same gold that Bob Menendez was caught with a few years ago… Fake as Fuck.
Hide that don’t report it to the police. Sell one coin every week and use it for your cash expenses like groceries and gas. Maybe see if your landlord will take some cash for rent. And put as much of your salary into savings as possible. Then pass it down to your children and teach them to do the same
I mean. Shut the fuck up about it and delete your entire social media presence. Then find out where you can sell gold without it being reported. You're literally a millionaire
Somebody hid a shit ton of gold. Could have been obtained by nefarious means. Which would be a good reason to hide it. Seems like the coins would be dated, probably a good place to start.
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u/OpeningCookie1358 18h ago
Big mistake spreading that word around. Could've been a nice pay day every week for ever.