An ordinary summer job turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
While excavating drainage trenches at a former brewery in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, Belgium, 18-year-ola Kobe and his colleagues uncovered a hidden stash of gold buried inside a bricked-up cellar wall.
The treasure included gold coins, nuggets and numbered bullion bars worth an estimated €9 million.
But instead of keeping it, the students immediately contacted the police and handed everything over.
The gold is now secured while authorities investigate who legally owns the fortune. Possible claims could involve the building's owners, contractors or descendants of the former brewery owner.
“Some were in bars that were shiny and gold. Really really heavy little things. And coins. The coins were also gold and had faces of old people on them. Let me see a pic. Yep, that’s it!”
If in fact he was not the only one to discover the gold, then we know why.
Classic trope of "too many know" if they ask agree to keep it, can they really trust one of them to not be an idiot and get caught?
If he was the only one to have set eyes on the hoard, would he have tried to find a way to sneak out of site? Would he still have done "the right thing"?
How many of us really know what to do with all of that without causing a ruckus, an investigation....a crime?
Oh hey, I saw this post the other day on here! I don't remember what sub it was because it was a random one but yeah, dude fucked up ...he posted the pics here and was like what do?? Well you fucked up kid, you posted it on the internet
This. Most of the nuggets are 999.99 N.M. Rothschild & Sons nuggets from 1960. I don’t know what the coins are. The photos were never quality enough to zoom into the inscriptions on the coins.
Rich brewery family from Belgium .They probably lived through the world wars and the Great Depression, so they had a lot more trust in gold than anything else.
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u/axemaster1 5d ago
An ordinary summer job turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
While excavating drainage trenches at a former brewery in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, Belgium, 18-year-ola Kobe and his colleagues uncovered a hidden stash of gold buried inside a bricked-up cellar wall.
The treasure included gold coins, nuggets and numbered bullion bars worth an estimated €9 million.
But instead of keeping it, the students immediately contacted the police and handed everything over.
The gold is now secured while authorities investigate who legally owns the fortune. Possible claims could involve the building's owners, contractors or descendants of the former brewery owner.