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He Was Just Renovating a Basement. He Tugged a Rope in the Floor—and Discovered a $2.4 Million Gold Treasure
It is merely human nature to wonder what’s at the other end of any mysterious rope or cable one might encounter in the world, but rarely does the result wind up being worth anything, much less millions of dollars. But one Austrian plumber hit the proverbial and literal jackpot. While renovating a Vienna villa, he caught a glimpse of such a rope sticking out of a basement floor, and after digging through the concrete it protruded from, he was, well, floored. The rope was attached to a real-life treasure chest full of gold worth an estimated $2.4 million. The 66 pounds of gold coins were dated to before World War II, ... (full story)
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