15 Times People Found Money and Gold in Strange Places

we are told that wealth you earn means much more than wealth you inherit or find but i don't know i'd be over the moon if i found wealth after all it's a bit like winning the lottery especially if you get to keep it from gold sovereigns in a piano to a one million dollar masterpiece in the trash here are 15 times people found money and gold in strange places number 15 sewage problem leads to treasure discovery luciano faggiano was the owner of a building in lecha italy it had been freshly renovated with white walls and a new heating system to make way for the italian style eatery he planned on opening before long luciano discovered a severe sewage issue involving a broken pipe he and his two sons started breaking up the flooring in search of the broken pipe but discovered more than they bargained for rather than finding the pipe right away they discovered a false floor and an entirely new level with stone from the middle ages they were literally down a rabbit hole as they uncovered remnants of ancient life the family discovered cellars tombs underground passageways even a well but those aren't even the best parts they also found jewelry ancient pottery roman devotional bottles and many other relics eventually a professional archaeologist was sent in to oversee the dig many items were sent to museums but luciano was able to keep many on display now alongside owning an eatery luciano operates a private museum within it with glass floors showing the many historical levels beneath before we go on like this video smash the subscribe button and click the notification bell right now or this centipede will crawl on your face when you're sleeping now it's time for the star topic this picture shows an awful lot of wealth there are thousands of dollars in cash jewelry and gold it looks like someone has spent years toiling away to accumulate this amount of wealth but what if we told you that someone found this hall in an abandoned building in dubai a couple of friends were apparently exploring and creating videos for youtube when they found a trunk in an empty structure this was apparently stored inside what do you think the value is of all this wealth and do you think someone actually stumbled across it comment down below with the hashtag star topic and let us know your opinion in relation to what we just showed on screen with that said let's keep things moving number 14 prison inmates find thousands of coins prisoners at plevon prison in pleven northern bulgaria had a day to remember in 2018 while carrying out agricultural work on land owned by the prison they discovered two pots hidden in the dirt but they weren't just any pots they were treasure pots containing 7 046 silver coins minted by the ottoman empire experts say they are axis the ottoman empire's main monetary unit and believe they had been buried there during the 19th century after further investigation it was found that the coins were all of different issues and face values which means they had been collected over several years at the time that amount of money could have purchased three houses in the ottoman empire's former capital odron because 19th century history is not that well known the coin find had incredible historical significance when the coins were discovered around a foot down work quickly stopped and archaeologists were brought in to take over the scene as remarkable as this find is it's not the only one of its kind in fact it was the third time treasure pots had been discovered in bulgaria in 2018. gold and silver coins and jewelry had also been found in medieval ruins in the town of ottapol and on cape caliacra in northeast bulgaria number 13 gold sovereigns found in piano ask any passionate pianist and they will tell you that their piano is one of their most valued treasures but as it turns out a piano can also hide treasure that was certainly the case at bishop's castle community college in shropshire piano technician martin backhouse had been called in to tune a 110 year old upright keyboard while performing maintenance he discovered coins in a leather drawstring purse and also stitched into seven cloth packets underneath the piano in total around 900 gold sovereigns had been discovered which included 633 full sovereigns and 280 half sovereigns they ranged in dates from 1847 to 1915. experts believe the coins which were made up of gold and silver had been deliberately sealed for discovery at a later date it's unknown who that person was or who their heirs or successors could be the piano had been donated to the community college by a couple who had been downsizing after a three-month appeal for the rightful owners no claimants had been found there was no way i was expecting any gold opened it though the crown took over ownership and the british museum's treasure valuation committee would place a value on it both the piano technician and the community college may stand to share the reward number 12 gold found in tank nick mead the owner of a tank restoration company in the uk called tanks a lot gets to deal with tanks every day he restores tanks supplies them for films and events and also hosts tank driving events but in his spare time nick is also a heavy vehicle collector he came across a chinese type 69 tank on ebay which was modeled after the russian t4 he bartered with the owner and swapped an abbot self-propelled howitzer and british army truck for the tank with a total exchange value of about 37 000 while his mechanic todd chamberlain was disassembling the tank to restore it he told nick that he believed the fuel tank was full of guns surprisingly this was a common occurrence nick filmed the retrieval to cover all bases if they had to turn over illegal guns to the police first of all i never ever expect to find something like this but instead of guns they found five gold bars they weighed 68.5 pounds and were worth around 2.4 million dollars experts believe the gold had been smuggled in with the tank during the gulf war iraqi soldiers stole a heap of gold when kuwait got invaded in 1990. the gold was turned over to the police and they gave nick a receipt for collection it's unknown if he'll receive anything for his find number 11 man finds gold mine on his property when you purchase a new home there are always a few things you didn't notice on your walkthroughs usually it's things like imperfections in the paint squeaking doors and old furniture left behind but what if you purchased a property and discovered a gold mine on it now that is not something you see every day okay so spoiler alert a guy named christopher who purchased a property with a gold mine on it didn't find any gold or money still he definitely got more than he bargained for while exploring the 16.5 acres of woodland fields included in his purchase he found the mine and decided to explore it on his first visit he only made it a short way in before realizing he would need a torch and additional batteries so he returned home got what he needed and went back he discovered everything you would expect in an abandoned mine like old ventilation systems puddles of stagnant water dampness and complete darkness but as he navigated the several hundred feet of passageways he saw a door with baited breath he pulled the handle and went inside you're probably expecting mine machinery or something similar but instead christopher discovered furniture including a rusty bed frame and mattress someone had been living in the mine number 10 jewelry lost in landfill could you imagine the absolute agony you'd feel if you accidentally threw away one hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry a very distraught person accidentally put two rings and a bracelet in the trash at a compactor site in 2014. a friend of the jewelry owner then called the hall county solid waste director johnny vickers asking if there was any possibility the jewelry could be found seemed like a long shot right we just spent the morning in 5.3 tons of garbage looking for our jewelry fortunately after finding out which truck had taken the trash johnny was able to determine that it hadn't yet been taken to the landfill area to be compacted if it had been it would be gone for good four employees and the jewelry owner's friend searched trash bags for 3 hours before finally finding the jewelry johnny said just 15 or 20 minutes stood between finding that jewelry and never seeing it again you might think that most landfill workers wouldn't be that accommodating when people lose things but that's not always the case johnny said people phone all the time about lost keys wallets and other valuable possessions they always do everything they can to retrieve what is lost as long as it hasn't yet made that fateful trip to be compacted number nine one million dollar masterpiece in 2003 elizabeth gibson was on a regular morning walk in the upper west side of manhattan when she discovered a painting and some trash she didn't know anything about artwork but took it home anyway elizabeth later said that even though she didn't understand it she knew it had power i don't know about power but it had value that's for sure she spent around four years trying to learn about the painting but came up short that was until she found it on the antiques roadshow website which described a masterpiece being stolen in 1989. do the right thing for the right reason even if it takes a few years and good things happen it was the same as hers the artwork was called tres persona hayes and it was painted in 1970 by ruffino tamayo the houston collector had purchased it as a gift for his wife for 55 000 but it was stolen from storage while moving to a new home a decade later elizabeth immediately handed over the painting and the original owner decided to sell it as her husband had since died it fetched 1 million 49 thousand dollars at sotheby's latin american art sale elizabeth received a fifteen thousand dollar reward for turning it in and a percentage of the sale price number eight flea market you can find all sorts of trinkets and treasures at flea markets which is why they bring in crowds from far and wide even though you sometimes make a profit on the things you find probably not nearly as much as one man did in adamstown pennsylvania a financial analyst from philadelphia spent four dollars on an old painting of a country scene at an adams town flea market he mainly bought it because he liked the frame when he was looking at a tear in the canvas the frame fell apart in his hands while removing the painting from it he discovered a folded piece of paper between the picture and the frame i'm amazed at that idea that you can stumble upon an incredible document it was an old copy of the declaration of independence his friend a civil war memorabilia collector told him to have it appraised it was then that he found out it was a rare original dunlap broadside only 500 copies of this first printing of the declaration of independence in 1776 had been printed what's more only around 23 similar documents were thought to exist before he found his and only two were privately owned it ended up fetching 2.42 million dollars at auction in 1991 before being sold again in 2000 for 8.14 million dollars number seven swallowed diamonds if you've seen any border patrol or custom shows then you know just how creative smugglers can be they hide all manner of illegal items in such genius ways but you know what in most cases the border workers are even smarter it's harder than ever before to get away with anything illegal yet people still try in 2012 a 25 year old lebanese man was arrested after swallowing 220 polished diamonds and attempting to board a flight from johannesburg south africa to dubai the diamonds were worth around 2.3 million dollars after the hawks a south africa elite police unit received a tip about the man they acted fast they stopped him at the o.r tambo international airport just before he went through the security checkpoint officers gave him laxatives so he could expel the diamonds just months prior another lebanese man had been arrested with 1.7 million dollars of diamonds police were investigating whether the two cases were related and if they were part of a diamond smuggling syndicate south africa used to be one of the world's largest diamond producers now though zimbabwe and botswana are where most of the mines are located number six diamond ring on a carrot mary grams had been weeding the gardens on her family farm in alberta in 2004 when she lost her beautiful diamond wedding ring she kept her loss a secret for many years and only her son knew she had lost the ring she didn't even tell her husband instead she went out and bought a cheap similar looking replacement and kept her mouth tightly sealed but 13 years later when her daughter-in-law was pulling up carrots for dinner she discovered a ring grown into a carrot the son knowing his mom's secret phoned her right away mary now 84 years old was overjoyed to have the ring back but she does have a few regrets she said did you lose an engagement ring and i says yes she said she wishes she had told her husband what happened as he had died five years earlier she believed that he would have found the whole situation funny because of the joker he was but she has also learned a few things if she goes outside or works with her hands she makes sure to keep it in a safe place just in case number five fisherman finds giant pearl an unnamed fisherman had been out fishing when his anchor got stuck on a rock during a storm in 2016. he swam down to pull it up and noticed it was actually stuck on a shell alongside taking up the anchor he also brought up the shell which contained a one foot wide 2.2 foot long pearl the fisherman had no idea what he had found the 34 kilogram gem which he discovered off the coast of palawa island in the philippines was five times larger than the previous largest pearl in the world it was also worth a staggering 100 million dollars but instead of doing anything with it he kept it under his bed in his run-down wooden home after all he was unaware that it was worth anything it wasn't until a fire at his home caused him to relocate that everyone came to learn about this fantastic discovery the fisherman handed the pearl to a local tourism officer who confirmed it came from a giant clam the pearl would remain in the philippines with the hopes that it would bring more tourists to the city number four forty thousand dollars in sofa brand new lounge suites can be quite expensive which is why many people check out their local thrift stores hoping to buy one for a bargain price in upstate new york three roommates picked up a lumpy frumpy old sofa at a salvation army store for 20 bucks oh wait i think it's actually going to be more like 30 000 and just kind of that progression as we went along when they got it home they noticed that the arms seemed unusually lumpy they opened the zipper to reveal 4 000 dollars in bills wrapped up in bubble wrap that wasn't the end of it either the more they explored the innards of the couch the more money they found by the end of it they had forty thousand eight hundred dollars laid out on a bed all having been stuffed inside the couch for safe keeping while they contemplated keeping the money they realized they wouldn't feel right doing it after all it wasn't their money to keep fortunately along with some of the money was a deposit slip with a woman's name on it they managed to track down a 91 year old widow who said she had a lot of money in that couch and really needed it they drove to her home and she cried in gratitude when the roommates handed over the cash according to the widow her family had donated the couch to the salvation army when she was having health problems number three 13 ring in 1986 debra goddard from twickenham in west london bought a pretty plastic ring at a sale for 13 bucks she liked the look of it and never thought it had much value because the gem on top looked and felt like plastic regardless she wore it for decades and loved it later family issues arose that saw her needing to access some fast money she decided to sell the ring thinking she might be able to get around a thousand dollars for it given it was so pretty but when she went to sell it she discovered that the plastic gem was actually a 26.27 carat diamond and was worth almost a million dollars it couldn't have worked out better deborah needed to sell the ring because a family member's fraud had caused her mother to lose her life savings she put it up for auction and even though she didn't get a million bucks for it she still walked away with six hundred seven thousand nine hundred dollars a significant amount more than her thirteen dollar investment with that money she has treated her mother to some exciting adventures she paid for a trip to barbados to live concerts for tom jones and elton john and even purchased her a fur coat number two 135 000 next to atm in mid-2020 jose nunez romanis had been tasked with the job of buying his grandfather new socks his grandfather hadn't been able to find any liked in the local stores so he asked his grandson to purchase them online before he could do so he made his way to an atm outside a wells fargo bank branch to make a deposit the branch was about two minutes from his home in albuquerque as he reached the machine in his truck he noticed a plastic bag on the ground with foot long stacks of 20 and 50 dollar bills jose wasn't sure what he should do as the bank was closed one thing he never thought to do though was take off with the money i didn't believe i i was looking at it so much never have he called the police who came and retrieved it when it was counted back at the station the bag ended up containing 135 according to albuquerque police the money was accidentally left behind by a bank subcontractor who was supposed to put money into the atm jose said that his parents always told him to work for his money stolen money would never last you any time he said number one rare watch bought for 5.99 in 2015 zack norris was browsing a phoenix arizona goodwill store on the hunt for a push-pull golf cart he didn't find what he was looking for but decided to dig through the basket of watches before he left the store most of them inside had dead batteries and price tags of around 15 each but one sitting face down with a 599 price tag caught his eye on the dial it read le coulte deep c alarm zack knew the lacul's name made by jager lecoult he also knew it would be worth more than 5.99 but what he didn't realize was that it was a vintage watch from circa of 1959 and was actually worth 35 000 the watch had been put on display for sale the day before so zach was in the right place at the right time he also had a love for watches and was part of a vintage watches group on facebook it was here that he learned to keep an eye out for vintage watches going cheap zach ended up selling the watch for 6 000 times what he paid for it and planned on putting the money towards his wedding getting his dream watch an omega speedmaster professional and improving the general quality of his life some of these stories are absolutely incredible imagine going on a walk and finding art in the trash only to become a millionaire from it you'd be ecstatic have you ever found money or treasures in some strange places tell us your story in the comments also check out our other cool stuff showing up on screen right now see you next time

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Length: 21min 47sec (1307 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021