Couple find £750k under their floor

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Well, they did but in a more interesting way.

A couple were renovating their house in Yorkshire and under the floorboards and concrete, they found a pot containing old gold coins. Turned out they were from the 1600’s and belonged to a Baltic trader.

They we’re auctioned off today and they sold for £750k!

Mental, the most exciting thing I’ve ever found under my floorboards is an empty pack of fags from the 1950’s

Ellerby: Gold coins found hidden under kitchen floor sell for £754,000

The coins, found during kitchen renovations in East Yorkshire, have attracted global interest.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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30 years ago when I bought my first house , similar thing happened with my elderly next door neighbour who died - son found a share certificate going back to 1900 or something like that under a rug under his dad's bed. Was worth well over a million pounds. He gave up his job, became an alcoholic losing an eye in the process and was dead within 18 months.

Blimey, that took a dark turn