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« on: October 30, 2013, 08:56:04 pm »
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Hot Off the Press from Yahoo news , WOW !!


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    Man Opens Old Safe, Discovers Gold Coins (ABC News)

By Anna Pan

A Houston scrap collector hauled an old safe from a family's home, but when the vault was pried open he discovered it held a fortune in gold coins and silver dollars.

The man who opened the safe was David Molick, owner of Robbie's Key & Lock shop who told ABC News that the scrap collector asked him to break into the safe before it was turned into scrap about a month ago.

"He showed me a picture of this safe, and I saw that it was a high security one," Molick said. "It was real difficult to get into. It was pretty beat up. Looked like somebody had tried forcing their way into it since the front was beat up."

Molick said he spent more than 20 hours trying to open the safe last week. Finally, after drilling 10 holes through six-inch walls of concrete, he discovered a bonanza.

"I thought, 'Oh, this ain't real,'" Molick said. "There were 50 Krugerrands in one pipe, and brand new, un-circulated silver dollars in ammo boxes. All of them were well over half full. The entire safe must've weighed at least 3,000 pounds." Molick estimates the safe to contain $2.5 million.

Molick then called the police and put a lock back on the safe the next day.

"We temporarily took custody of the coins on Monday," said Houston Police Department spokesperson Keese Smith.

Smith declined to estimate the value of the coins.

"I don't have an exact number, but there was a substantial amount," he said.

The scrap dealer and the family that originally owned the safe have remained anonymous, but Mike DeGuerin, an attorney for the family, told ABC News affiliate KTRK that the coins were returned to the family. He told the station the family's father had been saving them for decades, but had died recently. Someone who was helping his family clear out the garage was given the safe to sell as scrap, but was supposed to return anything inside of value once he figured out a way to get it open.

Smith said, "The two parties involved worked out their differences, and the coins were released to the individuals involved yesterday afternoon."

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Not something that happens every day is it! Cheesy

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Not something that happens every day is it! Cheesy


No !!    But the locksmith or safe export did a lot of work to get the safe open with no damage to the contents .
He should be entitled to a fair percentage of the contents [at least 10%] of the 2.5 million . Without his work the family would of found absolutely nothing !!
If he did get nothing out of the deal , it shows how greedy the world really is .  
A lot of treasures found in the world today do not always have a very profitable outcome .
I think when people find a huge treasure , they need to take a lot of time to really think about their discovery and all the possible scenarios and problems . Maybe a year or two ?  Remember that many treasures are hidden for hundreds of years , so adding one or two more years time to make a decision or a long negotiation is really no big deal . A lot of people have found treasures and said nothing .  Then who really knows what treasures are left , but we do know there are many treasures almost everywhere waiting to be found .  When making a big discovery be calm cool and collected , plus take your time !!

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Smith said, "The two parties involved worked out their differences, and the coins were released to the individuals involved yesterday afternoon."


Right there tells me that greed was working.  Sad, but the way things are right now.  If I were the safe opener, I would have a written contact.  That way I got a fair price for my work and there is nothing else to quibble over.

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