New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Tuesday started like any other job for a construction worker named Kobe. He was laying sewer pipes beneath a building owned by a regional social welfare charity on the outskirts of this Belgian city when his crew broke through a cellar wall and found something that stopped them cold.

just over $10.4 million at current exchange rates - stashed inside the walls of a building owned by CAW East-Flanders, a charity providing crisis counselling, housing support, and social welfare services across the province.

"We certainly hadn't expected to find gold," Kobe said. The Dendermonde police apparently found this charming enough to post on Facebook, where they also updated their profile picture to a gold coin. The announceme...