Wilfried Devillers edited by Emma Ben Youssef Sudarovich // Credit photo : Csankovszki Tibor (Illustration)
8.16pm, November 21, 2024
What if 30 kilos of gold coins were lying in your basement? Unusual certainly, but not impossible. A treasure of such magnitude was discovered by a plumber in Austria, while carrying out renovation work on a house!
Buried treasures don't just exist in pirate books! In Austria, a plumber discovered a metal box buried in the basement of a house, inside which lay 30 kilos of gold coins. A treasure estimated at 2.3 million euros, in other words, the kind of discovery that changes a life.
A mysterious rope
The story begins on November 11, in Vienna. Workers are carrying out work in the basement of a house when one of them discovers a rope, one end of which is buried in the ground. He pulls on it, but impossible to dislodge it. No more bothered by the mysterious rope, he abandons it to its fate. It was bad for him.
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The next day, his colleague rolls up his sleeves and is more daring. He equips himself with a shovel and begins to dig the ground to follow the route of the rope. After a few well-delivered blows, he comes across an old metal box embedded in a concrete wall. Inside, a treasure. And what a treasure! Hundreds of gold coins, for a nice weight of 30 kilos in total.
The current owner of the house says he was completely unaware of the existence of this hidden treasure. So, who will get the loot? According to the Austrian civil code, the owner of the land and the discoverer must share the treasure equally, i.e. no less than one million euros each.
