Massive Gold Hoard! Felt like Mel Fisher today!

[UnderMiner]

So last night I was cruising around the city in my truck in the freezing cold. Picking up junk every now and then at the curbs. I scored two garbage bags full of old vinyls, some boxes of household junk and a nice Italian vase - then at this big apartment building someone was tossing out everything! This is not an uncommon sight as many of the apartments are owned by very old people who live alone. So I'm guessing someone died and everything was being tossed out. All the furniture, all the pots and pans, all the small trinkets - most in black garbage bags. I tossed ten or so of the bags into the truck and called it a night.

This morning it was too cold to leave the house, so it wasn't until around 1pm that I went out and began sorting through all the junk. To make a long story short - this was the motherload of trash finds. Besides netting me a bunch of really cool antiques I scored a big gold hoard! I have never found this much gold at once ever before. The hoard consists of one large 14K gold ring, one hefty 14k gold chain-link bracelet, and one massive 18K gold bracelet. Nearly a grand of gold by weight! Combined it all weighs 30.7 grams! Holy smokes! - Argh!

The hoard:


The 14K gold ring:


The massive 18K gold bracelet (Made by the Turkish gold smith "Atasay Kuyumculuk" - "AK"):


The 14K gold bracelet:


Wearing the gold:

 

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[Dirty Genu]

Jumping Jesus.
Congrats many times over and over.

 

[dansalata]

congrats..wow!!!

 

[bill from lachine]

underminer,

Great haul of gold....you hit the jackpot.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[SusanMN]

Amazing. There are more people out there than you think there would be who know nothing about gold or jewelry. To them it probably just looked like big gaudy crap. Good for you for cleaning up their junk.

 

[jm382]

Congratulations

 

[Doc Arey]

Beautiful Save!

 

[Argentium]

You've really been tearing it up lately - some tasty trash there !

 

[Goose-0]

All I can say is.....WOW!

 

[Rich in Central PA]

That is simply amazing. Great score! Treasure is where you find it. Congrats...............Rich

 

[Silver Simon]

That is quite a score! I just hope there aren't any grieving relatives that will be missing out on their families keepsakes.

 

[huntsman53]

Dang what a haul! I need to get me a Dump Truck, drive to New York City and cruise the streets for a few days looking for bags and other stuff being thrown out. I would haul it back to Tennessee, go through everything and all the leftover junk/trash would go the landfill here where it is free to dump as long as you are not a trash or refuse business. I may not score anything worthwhile but I would have better chances of hitting the jackpot than playing the dang Lottery games here!


Frank

 

[g-olden years]

Beautifully crafted golden jewelry - Congrats! If you decide to sell it, you may earn even more by selling it as jewelry instead of to the refinery. Andi

 

[Silver Simon]

Beautifully crafted golden jewelry - Congrats! If you decide to sell it, you may earn even more by selling it as jewelry instead of to the refinery. Andi

Absolutely! With any older jewelry, it is always best to have it looked at by a jeweler for pricing before resorting to the spot price of the metal.

 

[RustyGold]

Holy Moley! What a great find! Congratulations!

 

[Slingshot]

Epic score!! Cheers!!!

 

[Silver Searcher]

Good score. It's actually illegal to do that here in the UK, you are not allowed to go through peoples trash.

SS

 

[voodoo]

Congrats!!! woweee!

 

[ARC]

Makes me wonder...
How much gold ends up in landfills every year.
Good save.

 

[Doubter in MD]

Wow. Unbelievable.