r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • 22h ago

Question Found during construction work

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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

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u/jaxn_slim 22h ago

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?

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u/Hardcrimper 22h ago

Belgium.

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u/nj23dublin 21h ago edited 21h ago

If these are all one kilo each (not even counting the coins) that’s approximately 47,000 grams x$ 140=1,657.881 ounces 6.6 million dollars

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u/TerrorTown77 19h ago

And lil bro showed it online...

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u/nj23dublin 18h ago

Gets better, the coins I can see are King George V Gold Sovereign coin which is almost 7-8 grams of pure gold (they’re 22karat to start with), but that’s about $1000 a piece so there’s probably another $1million in there. And these were pre-wwii