Treasure found at a construction site in Nyírbátor

The head of a Hungarian bricklaying crew recently reported an interesting story. Attila Sz. and his team were renovating an old house in Nyírbátor and had reached the kitchen. While removing a built-in cabinet, they noticed a cavity behind the skirting board packed with flour bags. When they opened the bags, work stopped for a while because the contents surprised them so much.

The residents had put away the price of two houses.

The labelled bags contained many old 100- and 500-forint banknotes worth a total of 30,000 forints. The residents had saved the money fifty years earlier, between 1970 and 1974. In 1974 the average monthly wage was 2,800 forints, Bors reported, and houses then cost 15,000–20,000 forints. One more bag lay beside the Kossuth 100s and Ady 500s.

“This was much heavier than the others, and we thought it must contain gold,” the crew leader said. “When we opened it, we saw one- and two-pengő coins from the 1930s. We even found a Horthy-era five-pengő coin said to be silver. We have no idea why they collected these.”

It was never established precisely why the paper money was saved. But had the owners put that money into gold, it would still be worth the price of TWO homes today. Gold preserves the purchasing power of your money. Think about where your savings are now and ask yourself whether they will remain secure even for decades. If the answer is no, contact me and I will help you own gold too.

Source: Bors