Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. A crew of construction workers arrived to install sewer pipes and left with a claim to a buried fortune (1). The workers were renovating a former brewery in Belgium when they uncovered gold bars, coins and nuggets sealed inside a cellar wall.
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Here are 4 moves to make before the window closes Among the crew was Kobe, an 18-year-old student working a summer job. He initially thought they had found ordinary change. "At first I thought they were €1 coins," Kobe said.
Then the crew spotted a gold bar and realized they had stumbled onto something far more valuable. The workers called the police, who cataloged the gold and moved it to a high-security federal vault. Their discovery sounds like the beginning of an instant riches story.
Whether any of the workers will actually receive a share remains an open question. The treasure was discovered beneath a property in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, about 19 miles northwest of Brussels. The building was originally constructed for brewery owner Theophilus Van Assche (2) in the late 19th century.
Brewing continued on the site until 1970. The property is now owned by the social welfare organization CAW East-Flanders, which was renovating it to create new offices and housing. Authorities must first determine where the gold came from and whether it was stolen or connected to criminal activity.
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