Safe Sold For Scrap Contained $2.5 Million In Gold Coins

Imagine that your relative died, and you let someone haul off his huge and heavy safe in return for the right to sell it for scrap. As anyone who has watched “Storage Wars” knows, locked safes can contain junk, they can be empty, and sometimes they can contain untold treasures. In this case, it was the “treasures” thing.

The Houston locksmith who got the safe open says that people frequently hire him after a loved one has died and left a safe behind. The survivors hope to find Scrooge McDuck-level riches inside. Sometimes there is emergency cash. Sometimes there’s nothing but important papers, and gun safes only contain guns. Sometimes families learn things that they would have preferred not to know.

“I opened a gun safe for a woman whose brother had died. It was full of Nazi memorabilia and the family hadn’t even known he collected that stuff,” he told the Houston Chronicle.

In this case, the survivors were quite happy to learn about the safe’s contents. It was filled with gold coins, silver bars, and some jewelry.

Millions in gold isn’t all you find while busting open safes [Houston Chronicle]

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist