Posted on 08/15/2026 3:55:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
One person’s trash dramatically turned into another’s treasure as workers in Belgium happened upon a gold hoard worth more than $10 million while installing a sewer line in a building they were renovating.
“Our first reaction was actually disbelief,” Kobe, an 18-year-old student worker, told Belgium outlet VRT. “Of course, we hadn’t expected to find gold.”
At the time, the construction crew was renovating a building in the city center of the Flemish community of Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, located about 40 miles from Brussels.
During the building rehab, workers were removing the foundation to make way for a sewer pipe when they “suddenly saw something lying there,” Kobe recalled.
At first they though it was a cache of one-Euro coins. Then someone identified a gold nugget.
“I went to look and took the gold in my hands,” recalled the site manager Mario. “We kept digging up new coins and bars as well. Only then did it really sink in what we had found. That was a crazy feeling.”
He added, “After 33 years in construction, it is the first time I have experienced something like this.”
The hoard of ingots and bullion amounted to around 9 million Euros or approximately $10.4 million USD, the New York Post reported.
Belgium laws, however, applied to the treasure trove. Regulations forced the crew to hand over the previous metals to police. Taking them, authorities said, would have been theft.
“There are so many coins and bars — it would be almost impossible [to take],” said Mario. “Besides, that would be theft.”
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Gold Hoard Ping!...........
If SISU was more friendly.
I was digging in my garden and what did I find?...Nothing but dirt...Black gold.
Theft from whom?
Hey! Thanks, guys - I lost my map of where I buried all that...
And they told them! Ha, ha, ha, ha....
“Besides, that would be theft.”
Stealing? From whom?? “That’d be like stealing from the government!” What an idiot.
https://youtu.be/vZ0B_5N28vY?si=-UCo6vtRL52lY2iv
For some reason, I expected you to say cat crap.
All I ever find with my metal detector is old bottle caps and beer pull tabs from the 70’s..............
What is the approximate date range? They look reasonably modern, not pre-war stuff at any rate. There is a story behind that stuff. Nobody abandons 10 million worth of bullion without something bad happening along the way.
First was telling someone.
They should’ve split them up amongst themselves, shut their mouths, and continued on their way.
Swiss Banks would have handled the rest.
No, I only have dogs. However I live on a lake and alligators and turtles lay eggs in mulch around fruit trees I have in the yard.
From whom?
I presume they belong to the property owner.
I recovered a Wells Fargo wagon on the ranch and a small amount of silver and currency. No records could be found. So it was mine. I sold the wagon to Wells Fargo and they restored it. I think it’s in the lobby of a New York branch.
"We found 20...I mean 10, $10 million in gold!"
You have to wonder what kind of dunderhead forgets about $10 mil in gold but at $4000 per ounce (troy), that’s only 2500 ounces, which comes to 171.5 lbs Avdp.
🤫
Jewish Gold?
[[“Our first reaction was actually disbelief,” Kobe, an 18-year-old student worker, told Belgium outlet VRT. “Of course, we hadn’t expected to find gold.” ]]
I hadn’t expected you to find it either- give it back, it’s mine!
I found a huge pile of pennies and nickles once alongside a party spot on a river lol
Nazi loot.
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