Workers in Belgium find $10.4 million worth of gold bars and coins walled up in cellar - Washington Times
Workers in Belgium find $10.4 million worth of gold bars and coins walled up in cellar - Washington Times
Source: Washington Times
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DW NOTE
Workers stumbling on $10.4 million in walled-up gold is the sort of discovery that makes headlines precisely because it no longer makes sense. In a functioning monetary system, no one hides ten million dollars of purchasing power in a cellar — they put it in a bank at interest. That someone did suggests either wealth earned in a shadow economy or wealth preserved through a collapse the owner didn't survive to reclaim. Either way, the gold is still there. The currency it was hiding from is not.