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by treeman79 1433 days ago
My parents house burned down. They had 20 minutes to grab what they could before wildfire came.

My dad dumped out a box of full of gold to put the pet rabbit in the box.

Later on the wtf hit. Why did I not just put the rabbit on top of the gold.

Pepper the rabbit lived a long and happy life though.

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Wouldn't gold survive the fire? Melting point is near 2000 degrees F
They were able to salvage some gold from fire. I think they got about 1,000 dollars of raw metal out of 100,000 worth of Coins
Ingots and sovereigns, perhaps. But jewellery would've taken some damage.