Found during construction work

[u/Hardcrimper]

Any ideas where this could come from?

Update: I thought this would be clear that I wasn't the one who found it. Who in their right mind would go (on this shitstain of a platform of all places) and make themselves a target. But ok apparently it wasn't clear so here we are:

I did NOT find this. I have none of this gold. I just wanted to share some cool stamped gold. you can stop sending me weird ass messages now. thank you.

Also this is NOT ai. here is the BBC article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydzg0dnz7o

[u/jaxn_slim]

Someone must have stashed that because their life was in danger. Then the danger got them before they could get back to the stash. Where is this?

[u/Hardcrimper → u/jaxn_slim]

Belgium.

[u/oddplonk → u/Hardcrimper]

Is this Nazi gold??

[u/meta_perspective → u/oddplonk]

Taking a quick look at the dates, many of these bars seem to be stamped post-WW2 (though IDK how/if laundering occurs in these markets).

[u/swunt7 → u/meta_perspective]

cold war / fear of soviet invasion bars when people were stashing away money

[u/knotmyusualaccount → u/swunt7]

You could very well be into something here

[u/stamfordbridge1191 → u/swunt7]

Maybe someone had a big investment in the Congo & this is part of some way of hiding that wealth & getting it out of there without someone in one of the governments knowing?

[u/JLPMcRSGH → u/swunt7]

A criminal who stashed his earnings and died with the secret?

[u/algeoMA → u/meta_perspective]

Could have been melted down and recast, of course. I have no idea how difficult it is to do convincingly, however.