Posted on 04/09/2017 8:31:23 AM PDT by mandaladon
A tank fanatic got a new model in a £30,000 [$37,000] trade-in — and found more than £2million of gold bullion hidden in the fuel tank.
Nick Mead, 55, discovered the five gold bars in the Russian T54/69 while restoring it to add to his collection of 150 military vehicles.
He and mechanic Todd Chamberlain were filming themselves prising open the diesel tank in case they found munitions and needed to show it to bomb disposal crews.
Instead, they pulled out the bars, weighing up to 12 pounds — 5kg — apiece.
Todd, 50, said a quick calculation suggested they were worth in excess of £2million [$2.5 million].
He added: “We didn’t know what to do. You can’t exactly take five gold bullion bars down to Cash Converters without questions being asked, so we called the police.”
Nick runs Tanks-a-Lot, giving petrolheads the chance to drive any of his tanks on his farm in Helmdon, Northants.
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Odd little bit of synchronicity, that!
And another: the *Tigers* in Kelly's Heroes were actually Yugoslav T-34s, *dressed* to resemble Tiger Is, close cousins to Nick Mead's T34/69s.
“unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and God which is God’s” yet another time when Christ outwitted the Pharisees as they failed to understand the basic truth that God owns it all.
Where would you get the cast for the coins?
Pfft..........that’s peanuts. Dr. Ben Carson found out $500 Billion is missing from HUD.
Gold is about $1265 per TROY ounce - 12 troy ounces per pound.
“and hope that nobody claims it within a year (or whatever the limit is).”
If it was looted from Kuwait or Iraq it is stolen property and there is no way he can keep it. He could try to fight it in court but he will lose after spending many many thousands of dollars. He may get a nice thank you note from the Kuwaiti govt for finding it.
I remember reading of the Lost Dutchman Mine in which he found GOLD so pure some thought he may have robbed someone and melted the coins down into nuggets.
First off you wouldn’t be one I told. Second nothing says you have to divvy the stuff off like you chopped off a gold bar. A few thousand in smelting equipment and willing to travel a bit over time. Think about it.
Gold panning permits! Gold panning permits! Get your Indiana State Parks gold panning permits right here!
I love a happy ending.
Makes sense
It’s Oddball’s gold. He got stoned and forgot where he parked the tank.
“Where would you get the cast for the coins?”
A “coin” is a gov’t issued disk with stampings on it identifying it as such. Coins are not cast; they are stamped using dies which you or I could never reproduce. That would be counterfeiting, obviously bearing serious penalties. Private mints produce round disks with their own stampings, which is fine. Those cannot be called “coins”-—they are known as “rounds”. A government issued bullion coin is inevitably stamped with an amount indicating its value in common currency, but those values are ridiculous. For example, a US gold Eagle which you can buy for about $60-70 over its bullion value has a face value of fifty dollars. Obviously one would be nuts to spend such a thing for $50.
There’s really no need to melt these bars down. Though if that was the way one decided to go, you can buy graphite ingot molds for not much. That requires a furnace and fuel, not super costly but not really needed. They could be sawn up into chunks (save the sawdust!) and hammered enough to obliterate any markings, then sold to a refiner who would perform an assay and then tender well over 90% of value. I don’t know the laws in England. In the US it would just be a matter of not showing up with too much of the metal at the same time, at the same place.
Yup,I can imagine such a scenario.You've traveled to the back streets of Lagos (or Sao Paulo...or Ho Chi Minh City) with your little bits of what *you* claim to be .999 pure gold.But doubting your claims your contact *kills* you and takes your gold.And when your body's found (assuming it's *ever* found) yours is just another case for the highly skilled and relentless local police force.
Think about it.
Call me I know exactly what to do. :-)
coins might be slightly illegal. I’d be makin big ole chains for the bros in the hood. (but not selling them in the hood — ebay or something)
You cab still get a prospector’s license in the US for like $20 or something. I know a guy that did it just to be able to park his camper at various spots in the country to save paying campsite fees.
Stash it away, incorporate it into your SHTF Plan...
Personally I don’t have such a plan but that much gold would a good reason to start.
We should all check our tanks ;-)
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