Police in Belgium recently made a most remarkable discovery while digging under the foundations of an old brewery.
While using a jackhammer on the property in the city of Dendermonde, about 19 miles outside of Brussels, construction workers noticed coins beginning to appear in the hole they were making.
Kobe Phillips, a student working a part-time, said that he thought at first they were 1 euro coins, and asked a colleague to help him dig them out. Then they saw that they weren't—and that there was a gold bar stuck to the end of their jackhammer.
You can see the proof of it in the photo above on the bar third from left in the top row.
40 gold bars and over 4,000 gold sovereign coins were eventually recovered, estimated to be worth some $10 million at current market prices.
"I thought they were one-euro coins, neatly lined up in a row. We dug them out, and then we saw a small bar of gold lying there, already attached to our digging hammer. There was actually a bit more than we'd thought," Phillips told Belgium broadcaster
