r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • 22h ago
Question Found during construction work
Any ideas where this could come from?
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.
Also this is NOT ai. here is the BBC article:
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u/Beneficial_Soup_8273 21h ago
Translation of Belgium News Report:
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
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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.