This Guy Purchased A Tank On Ebay, But Didn’t Know It Contained A Fortune

Gold-Treasure Weigh In

In all, Todd Chamberlain found 5 bars of gold, with the total worth (based on weight) coming out to $2.5 million. Nick Mead asked his colleagues what they would do with their shares of the money, and the answer was that they’d like to buy Range Rovers, and answers like that.

When you’ve got a good life, and you work with people you like, there’s really nothing that the gold can buy that you don’t already have. Of course, others said they’d buy a tank, which just means that they really are perfect for their jobs.

How The Tank Ended Up In The Hands Of An Ebay-er

It’s safe to say that neither Todd Chamberlain or Nick Mead ever expected to find $2.5 million worth of gold bullion in the fuel tank of a giant tank. The discovery of the “live” munitions was surprising enough. So, when they reported it, they told the operator, “We’ve found umpteen bars of gold bullion in an Iraqi tank.”

As the story goes, it’s guessed that the gold might have come to be in the tank when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, since wholesale looting took place. The United Nations had ordered Iraq to return everything that had been stolen, but a good deal of property was never returned. In fact, the summary end of the report was that two Northamptonshire police officers arrived at the farm to take the gold bars away for investigation. So what exactly happened to lead up to this point?