Discovered treasure filled with gold in an old house in France

The total number of gold bars and coins worth more than 780,000 USD was discovered inside the abandoned house in eastern France.

A treasure discovery site with lots of gold bars and gold coins is located inside an old house in the town of Morez in the Jurassic region, eastern France. According to experts, all of the old metal belonged to a wealthy merchant family in the area at that time. However, the last life of the family had no children. Mayor Laurent Petit said the three-storey building in the center of town was home to four brothers and sisters without children. The last one passed away at the age of 90 last year. Then, the property’s legal heir did not use the house and sold it to the city hall for more than $ 156,000. The old house has been abandoned for a long time on a land called Maison Jobez by the locals. Recently, the town hall staff conducted a house cleaning to prepare for the city renewal campaign when they discovered the treasure full of gold. They discovered gold in two separate waves. Specifically, for the first time, employees found 5 boxes of gold bars and coins worth more than $ 600,000 on the back of a dusty shelf. A second time, when opening a locked safe in the closet, the staff found gold coins worth about $ 180,000. Mayor Laurent Petit said: “The local government was extremely confused and surprised to find so many gold bars and gold coins. None of us had ever held a gold bar. We just saw it in the pictures and thought that the gold bar must be very large, but here each one weighs only about 1 kg, the size of a cigarette pack “. The town hall intends to use the gold in this surprise treasure to reinvest back into the development of the area. Mayor Laurent Petit shared that the original home seller knew inside the three-story house contained treasure but believed it was gone. Mayor Laurent Petit said: “In the house is full of furniture and there have been several generations living without throwing anything away.”