To know the mystery behind this. "Teen Finds Gold Bar While Swimming In German Lake" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...id=txtlnkusaolp00000592&kvcommref=mostpopular
Doesn't seem so strange when a lot of people I read about who are stackers seem to have an awful lot of boating mishaps.
Perhaps it was one of our German SS. Hope they're ok. No doubt it was stolen with the serial # being ground off. Maybe it was bringing bad luck and the thief had to get rid of it. It would have been awfully tempting to keep it.
Clearly marked as 500g, but ignorant media just had to convert to ounces for dumbasses, and misleadingly/incorrectly didn't use troy ounces.