{"id":9129,"date":"2015-08-13T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T17:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midastouch.goldgenie.com\/?p=9129"},"modified":"2015-08-13T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T17:29:32","slug":"a-lucky-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/a-lucky-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lucky Dip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Gold-Bar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Gold-Bar.jpg\" alt=\"Gold-Bar\" width=\"660\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We love a good story about Gold and this week brought in a\u00a0good one as a 16 year old girl found a Gold bar two meters below the surface of a Bavarian Lake, Koenigssee lake, a popular tourist attraction near the Austrian border. \u00a0The bar measures over 6 inches in length and is 500g\/17.6oz in weight and is said\u00a0to be worth\u00a0\u20ac16,000.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately with treasure such as this, it is not such as simple case of &#8220;finders keepers.&#8221; The girl handed the bar into local police and local divers were sent to search to see if there were other bars in the surrounding area. \u00a0The spot is rumoured to be the location of a Nazi hoard. \u00a0However, German police deny this and say that the bar is from an earlier period. \u00a0Tests are currently being carried out by scientists to decipher who the true owner of this mysterious piece of bullion is. \u00a0Come to think of it, one of our Goldsmiths might have been sailing\u00a0in Germany last summer&#8230; \u00a0 Ok it doesn&#8217;t quite look like our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/gold-bullion-ingots.php\">Gold Ingots<\/a> but we can\u00a0always try our luck!\u00a0: D<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/gold-bullion-ingots.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/white-ingots-1024x610.jpg\" alt=\"white-ingots\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love a good story about Gold and this week brought in a\u00a0good one as a 16 year old girl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[597,607,702,1590],"class_list":["post-9129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-default","tag-gold-bar","tag-gold-bullion","tag-gold-news","tag-treasure-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}