Man buries 850K Pounds of Gold in Back Yard

[Cold Pizza]

Can I get the address of this fella?

Treasure hunt: A man in his 80s is said to have buried £850k worth of gold in his back garden

X marks the spot... Man worried about new financial crisis buries £850k worth of gold in his back garden - and leaves 18 treasure maps in his will for each daughter and grandchild
Retired engineer said to have buried £1m in his back garden
Has drawn maps for each daughter and grandchild
Said to have been hit hard in 1980s and the 2008 financial crisis
By LEE BOYCE FOR THISISMONEY.CO.UK


A retired engineer has buried £850,000 worth of gold in his five-acre back garden using a digger, according to the chief executive of a commodity broker.

Known only as Ron, the widower with a total of 18 daughters and grandchildren had the gold delivered to his house between November 2015 and April 2016, which he subsequently buried in 18 different locations for each of the beneficiaries.
He has plotted unique co-ordinates and created 18 unique versions of a map which reveals its whereabouts, according to Josh Saul, the chief executive of The Pure Gold Company, which sold it to him and has Ron as a private client.

The maps will go to each of his family members and have been given to his lawyer for safe-keeping.

He requested the gold was only delivered to him on sunny days so he could immediately bury it once received.

It comes as the price of the commodity has risen 17 per cent since start of the year thanks to fears over the global economy, including the impact of a Brexit and stock market wobbles earlier in 2016.


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Mr Saul says there has been a 32 per cent jump in enquiries for gold in the last four weeks.

Ron - who wished not to be fully named for obvious reasons - is in his 80s, retired at 65 and is said to have made a substantial amount of money in the property market both in the UK and Germany.

He lost a considerable amount of his pension in the 1980s crash, rebuilt it, and lost more in 2008, with a duff investment in Lehman Brothers and struggling to recoup cash in Northern Rock.


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[BaitongBoy]

Man buries 850K Pounds of Gold in Back Yard

Kind of a misleading title, the barstards...

[BaitongBoy]

I know Ron, by the way...And I've been on his spread before...

[Cold Pizza]

Man buries 850K Pounds of Gold in Back Yard

Kind of a misleading title, the barstards...

My bad.

[Luigi]

I know Ron, by the way...And I've been on his spread before...

Got a map of the location?

[piwanoi]

I know Ron, by the way...And I've been on his spread before...

Is that when I bumped into you at 1 am carrying a spade

[BaitongBoy]

^ Hello Ron...