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Let me start by saying, I'm in the construction business & I have never found anything hidden away in any of my restoration jobs. But, It looks like there is still hope.  Secret $1 million gold stash discovered in French rafters http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...3724430.htmlA French Champagne producer is spreading the wealth with his workers after they discovered nearly $1 million in gold coins stashed away in the building's rafters, according to Agence France Press (AFP). "One of the workers (was) attacking the building's ceiling with a crowbar when gold coins started to rain down on him, followed by sacks of gold," Francois Lange, head of Alexandre Bonnet in Les Riceys France, told AFP. It's not unusual to hear about treasure hunters combing the ocean's depth for gold and other precious metals lost at sea, but finding $1 million in your office attic is quite a steal. And a valuable one too, given that demand for gold has reached new heights recently. In 2011, just an ounce of gold was valued at $1,920.30. In all, 497 gold coins were unearthed, with the majority literally raining down upon the workers who were busy renovating the building. Minted between 1851 and 1928, the coins have a face value marking of $20 each. However, together they are now worth an estimated $980,000, according to AFP. Lange says he will keep half of the money for himself, while splitting half with the workers who made the discovery. No one knows for sure who placed the coins in the building, but AFP reports the building was previously owned by a wine producer in the 1930s. That may seem like a minor detail for now but don't be surprised if this "buried" treasure story still has another chapter to be told. After all, what are the odds that $1 million in gold coins will go unclaimed, even if the previous owners are no longer alive. Just look at the recent legal case being argued between Spain and a team of scavengers who in 2008 found more than $500 million worth of gold coins and other treasures in a wreck off the Florida coast. Edited by chris12018
02/16/2012 6:31 pm
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gold coins started to rain down on him That would be quite surreal, to say the least! |
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They probably haven't consider the numismatic value for those coin (minted from 1851 and 1928). For normal people, the coins rain down on him may feel and sound great, but for us collectors, it's heart wrenching feeling with the thought of all the hit/ding on those coins right after......
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That's it, I'm taking a hammer to my ceiling!
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So many treasure lost in this world, like I said in the other thread about another gold find today, crazy coincidence....
Only reason these treasures are lost an never found, two reasons I figure.....
Death or prison....
They have proved now the James gang was stashing gold and silver coins in many southern states, and they marked their treasure spots with coded messages, that historians have broken. They have found their old jars an what not as well buried in the right spots full of Morgans an gold pieces. They also took a picture of an old fellow who was theorized to be Jesse James as an old man, an superimposed an young image of James over the top of it, and the expert said with 100% certainty, that the old man in the picture was indeed Jesse James....
The plan supposed was to re-start the civil war with funds acquired through robbery's out west an what not I imagine.....
Now if he or any of his gang did live to be old, wonder why they never went back an unearthed those silver an gold coins?
I know that seems of subject but not really as I can't help but wonder how treasures are lost an forgotten....
When I was in 7th grade, I found a 20 dollar bill in a secret slot inside my closet in a new home I moved into, and I showed my dad with excitement, and he first figured I snagged it out of his wallet. I am no thief an never stole from my parents, so it kind of ticked me off way back 20 plus years ago. The best thing I ever found, stinkin 20 bucks, and ridiculed and could not enjoy the money, about my luck....
Twenty bucks slips through the cracks I can see, 497 1 oz. gold coins not so much perhaps.....
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02/16/2012 9:24 pm
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I did find 10 bucks in a large gravel parking lot outside a huge local country bar here in town, about 2 months back....
I bet I could simply drive an park outside bars, and walk around an clean up, from all the lushes dropping their money all over the place getting in an out of cars, pulling things out of pockets and what not unknowingly, lol....
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Yes I read this today as well. There was another find doing a kitchen renovation in Germany. Bag of coins silver and gold under a sink area. Really neat
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That's pretty cool. Only thing I ever found in a ceiling was an old 7Up can and a piece of cinder block.
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That may seem like a minor detail for now but don't be surprised if this "buried" treasure story still has another chapter to be told. After all, what are the odds that $1 million in gold coins will go unclaimed, even if the previous owners are no longer alive. Well, claiming something is one thing but proving your claim could be quite another. It is possible that these coins were stolen many years ago, hidden in that building, and the thieves were either killed by police or died in prison. After all this time, who knows? I would think that anyone making a claim on these coins would need some heavy-duty proof of ownership. Otherwise, finders keepers! Quote:
For normal people, the coins rain down on him may feel and sound great, but for us collectors, it's heart wrenching feeling with the thought of all the hit/ding on those coins right after...... Yeah? Well think how much worse it would be if the building had burned down and the coins were melted / lost forever in the ash and debris afterwards. I would imagine that has happened any number of times. |
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