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€9 Million Gold Hoard Found During Renovation of Historic Belgian Building
🇱🇹 Lithuania /Culture & Society

€9 Million Gold Hoard Found During Renovation of Historic Belgian Building

From Delfi · () Lithuanian

Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Workers found gold bars and coins worth about €9 million inside the wall of a historic building in Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, northern Belgium.
  • A young student, Kobe Philips, discovered the hoard while drilling into the wall during renovation work.

A routine renovation job turned into a gold rush in Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, after a student drilling into a historic building uncovered gold bars and coins valued at about €9 million.

Kobe Philips, who had been earning money working on the construction site, found the hoard inside a wall belonging to a building owned by the General Social Assistance Centre. The discovery came one morning when he began using an impact drill.

“We suddenly saw something while working. At first I thought they were neatly stacked one-euro coins. We started pulling them out and then ...” Philips said. The available account ends his quote there.

We suddenly saw something while working. At first I thought they were neatly stacked one-euro coins. We started pulling them out and then ...

— Kobe PhilipsThe student described how he discovered the gold while drilling into the wall during renovation work.
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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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