14 DAY TRIAL // A man collecting scrap metal has come across a fortune but, unfortunately for him, it is not his to keep.
A safe he got with old metal parts recovered from a family garage contained vary valuable coins.
David Molick, owner of Robbie’s Key & Lock shop, was enlisted by the unnamed scrap metal collector to open the old safe.
The high security vault was in very bad state, and it took Molick about 20 hours to pry it open. When he did, he found $2.5 million (€1.8 million) worth of old coins inside.
“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 (1,360 kg),” he says.
He closed the vault and alerted the police, who confiscated the bounty. A dispute over who was entitled to the fortune followed, with the family claiming ownership of the coins.
Family lawyer, Mike DeGuerin, tells ABC News about the father saving the coins and not telling his family about them.
They reportedly asked a man to clear up the garage, safe included, but told him that he would have to return the contents of the safe.