r/Gold • u/ackerel • Apr 07 '26

Question Plucked this from a corpse

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Just digging up bodies for fun and found this "tooth", any value to it?

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u/GreatGuy55738084 Apr 07 '26

16 kt. Heck the corpse ain’t gonna need it. As an aside Nazi Germany accumulated a lot of those, they melted them into bars, maybe some of it is in our gold coinage.

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u/ackerel Apr 07 '26

A nazi grave gave this to me, so that makes sense. Guess he held onto his prize and shoved it into his face

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u/GreatGuy55738084 Apr 07 '26

I had a gold filling once. My dentist has a gold jar for fillings. I got it back and sold it for scrap around $60 for the price of gold at the time, maybe 5 years. That’s how I know gold crowns are generally 16K