SukritiHidden Treasure
Martin, the tuner further added, “As soon as I started lifting out the keys, I thought, uh-uh, what’s this underneath the keyboard. I lifted one and thought, that can’t be moth repellent, it’s too heavy.” What was it that was hidden inside? A treasure? Or even more?
Loads Of Gold
“I thought I am going to have to open up one of those packages to see what it is. There was no way I was expecting any gold. I opened up one of the packets and did a double take. I thought it couldn’t be sovereigns, but this was something big.” Martin further told about his reaction, “Oooh, it looks like there’s rather a lot of gold in this.”
What he did next is just so incredibly overwhelming that it’ll win anyone’s heart.
Too Good To Be True
While Martin could have kept the treasure to himself as he found it, he immediately called the headmaster and informed him what he has just found. The wise man with a kind heart said, “No – I could have quite happily swapped them a brand-new piano for that one. But that would not have been right or proper. As it was gold, I thought that the school needs it just as much as I do, knowing the problems with the pianos in their school.”
Amazing Discovery
“We were extremely grateful to receive several donations, with the final piano arriving in September. It was on 21 November that we invited a piano tuner (Mr. Backhouse) to visit the school to review and possibly tune four of the donated pianos. He felt that one of the pianos had particular potential and set to work,” a person present at the moment remembered in an interview. But what did they do of all that gold?
Unraveling The Entire Scenario
The person further said, “A short while later he informed me and the headteacher that he’d discovered several small packages concealed under the piano’s keys. We opened one of them and found that it contained a number of coins, which we agreed were gold sovereigns. Clearly, this was something that none of could possibly have imagined and it’s hard to describe how we felt on making this discovery. After the initial shock, surprise and excitement, we had to quickly decide what to do next.” What’s next?
Checking The Authenticity
“We photographed the packages in situ, numbered and photographed each package, and placed them in the school safe. After carrying out some internet-based research into gold sovereign and the Treasures Act 1986 we agreed that the coins were a significant find and should be reported to the coroner. Shortly after contacting the coroner’s office we were contacted by Peter Reavill, Shropshire’s finds liaison officer, who was working on the coroner’s behalf,” as the person described the whole scenario.
Were these coins real gold?