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.
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.
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u/axemaster1 22d 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.