Gold bars and coins found stashed in old house

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The surprise discovery of three jam jars filled with gold bars and hundreds of gold coins in an old building marked for renovation has left a mountain community in eastern France perplexed and celebrating.

The mayor of Morez, a small industrial town in a picturesque valley in the Jura, said the value of the find was more than €600,000 (£520,700). Town hall staff first found three jam jars of gold bars and coins worth €500,000 at the back of a dusty shelf, then opened a safe hidden behind boxes in a wardrobe to find up to €150,000 in gold coins.

The mayor, Laurent Petit, said that the three-storey building in the town centre had been lived in by four brothers and sisters without children.

Guardian report

Edited April 17, 2021 by Eldorado

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It's not fair!

The most I found at our family home was an 1838 penny, and a bus ticket from the 1950's.