Gold in Tank….Poor chap didn’t get a penny…

[dicker]

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12907325/I-2million-gold-bars-hidden-inside-Iraqi-tank-bought-eBay-wish-never-handed-didnt-earn-penny.html

[GoldDiggerDave]

Poor guy.  

[Stu]

As said, he should have got a finders fee minimum. Hardly encourages a person to do the ‘right’ thing. 

[Olivard]

Suppose they have to find the owner first before any finder's fee. If they don't find them will he get the lot returned to him?

[Jake0111]

Hmmmmm wounder how hard it would have been to sell with out raising to many questions.

[HonestMoneyGoldSilver]

Finders keepers!

I heard the gold is currently sitting beside a large heated swimming pool somewhere in North Yorkshire

[SeverinDigsSovereigns]

That's probably where all the fake bars and sovereigns with full gold content came from.

I am aware of laws saying you have to hand in treasure finds (though getting paid) if a museum wants them. And you might be able to keep them if the museum doesn't want them (that's how the 1953 sovereigns went to the market), but I have absolutely no idea what the law says about some bonus modern gold bars from an eBay tank. The whole thing is bizarrely amusing. Treasure finds have the questions of land ownership and tenancy etc, a used tank doesn't

[dicker]

3 hours ago, Jake0111 said:

Hmmmmm wounder how hard it would have been to sell with out raising to many questions.

Not hard, but would need planning, and setting up a business. 

[Jake0111]

6 minutes ago, dicker said:

Not hard, but would need planning, and setting up a business. 

With bad file keeping 🤣

[SeverinDigsSovereigns]

57 minutes ago, Jake0111 said:

With bad file keeping 🤣

or a flood

[Sovhead]

What an idiot.

[modofantasma]

14 minutes ago, Sovhead said:

What an idiot.

Maybe he found 10 bars not 5 😏

[Sovhead]

10 minutes ago, modofantasma said:

Maybe he found 10 bars not 5 😏

Well he’s an idiot for giving half of them away 🤣🤣

[Lancashire1]

No sympathy. Handed in some gold, looted from a dictator or various Iraqi warlords. Someone so stupid doesn't deserve to find a pile of gold. 

 

[AaaGee]

I would have put them on here in the Today i recieved 😄

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[Midasfrog]

He should have handed a picture of the bars to the police and said when you find the owner send him over 🙂

Saying that Pawn shops don't take gold bars is just plain weird 😂

[Jake0111]

28 minutes ago, Midasfrog said:

He should have handed a picture of the bars to the police and said when you find the owner send him over 🙂

Saying that Pawn shops don't take gold bars is just plain weird 😂

He might be one of them people that over shares his business. Where did you get the gold? Well its a funny story....

Im guessing on the other hand if he has the skill set to restore a tank he could easy chop the lumps up and melt it into small unbranded bars.

 

[Sovhead]

1 minute ago, Jake0111 said:

He might be one of them people that over shares his business. Where did you get the gold? Well its a funny story....

Im guessing on the other hand if he has the skill set to restore a tank he could easy chop the lumps up and melt it into small unbranded bars.

 

And he could have sold them on here 🤣🤣

[Midasfrog]

1 minute ago, Sovhead said:

And he could have sold them on here 🤣🤣

Would have to be 8% under spot to sell here 😂

[Jake0111]

Just now, Midasfrog said:

Would have to be 8% under spot to sell here 😂

The f**ker probably still fill it with copper. 🤣

[Sovhead]

There was a story in the news a while back not on this scale but a guy bought a 2nd hand piano and inside it found a cloth bag with something like 500 sovs in it, he was another idiot and handed them in.

Found it..

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/20/gold-sovereign-hoard-found-college-piano-declared-treasure

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[Jake0111]

6 minutes ago, Sovhead said:

There was a story in the news a while back not on this scale but a guy bought a 2nd hand piano and inside it found a cloth bag with something like 500 sovs in it, he was another idiot and handed them in.

Found it..

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/20/gold-sovereign-hoard-found-college-piano-declared-treasure

They will have been 1000s of sovereigns found over the years from people losing them after the Exchange Control Act with people not wanting to give them up. 

[JohnA1]

Polluter of the gene pool

[Skyfiller]

That’s Nick, I get spares for my cvrt from him, happened a while back. Think there is a YouTube video somewhere of them finding them. At the time he thought it was the right thing to do, he’s an honest guy. Not everyone’s cup of tea but genuine nonetheless. He is having problems at the moment as he has a yard full of purchased cvrt’s waiting to go to the Ukraine for medivac but Barclays shut his account without reason last year and ‘blacklisted’ him.

[JohnA1]

 

At least he got to put something in a safety deposit box..