A worker renovating a house in Vienna, Austria, was pleasantly surprised to discover a chest full of gold coins. The 30 kilo metal trunk actually contained a collection estimated at 2 million euros.
An incredible discovery. While carrying out renovation work in a house in the Austrian capital with a team of several other people, reports the newspaper Heute, a worker unearthed a chest containing more than 30 kilos… of gold coins.
In total, the treasure exposed this Tuesday, November 12 is estimated at more than 2 million euros. A “fabulous” dream come true for this extraordinary lucky guy.
Good intuition
Although there were many of them working on the house site, there was only one for whom the vision of a mysterious rope trapped in the ground seemed curious.
After digging until he felt a metallic resistance at the end of his tool, the worker unearthed a metal box inside which lay a real treasure: hundreds of gold coins, probably old and estimated at 2, 3 million euros.
“It’s really incredible. I have worked on construction sites since the age of 15. From time to time, we find coins. But such a discovery is fabulous,” confides one of the witness workers. of the discovery at Heute.
Man's obligation to share his spoils
According to Austrian law, anyone who discovers treasure on someone else's property is obliged to share it with them. A provision which also exists in French law since “if the treasure is found in someone else's fund, half of it belongs to the person who discovered it, and the other half to the owner of the fund”, recalls the article 716 of the Civil Code.
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In total, the lucky worker should therefore be able to be awarded a little over a million euros. Enough to be able to renovate your own home.
