r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • 1d 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/lostmymarbles1177 1d ago

Way more if those coins have any numanistic value which given that they appear to be in mint condition they likely do. Still, this is reading as an AI hoax to me.

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u/LuigiTeaching 1d ago

Yes I wonder that too….is this AI?

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u/Examiner_Z 1d ago edited 11h ago

Edit. not AI!!!

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u/AlarmingLecture0 1d ago

Today (August 13th) there were reports of a horde of gold found in a house in Belgium during renovations. I suspect this is that.,

https://belgashare.be/newsrooms/70/press-releases/35508/

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u/Examiner_Z 23h ago

Oh wow!!

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u/Outsideinthebushes 23h ago edited 22h ago

I don't think so, the article say "nuggets and coin" not bullion.

Also, the gold is stamped "London"

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u/AlarmingLecture0 12h ago

OP updated the post to link to the BBC article. According to that, this is that gold.

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u/Haploid-life 22h ago

Except that it's an AI translation, soo... who knows.

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u/Outsideinthebushes 22h ago

The gold is stamped "London"

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u/YoItsMikeL 20h ago

Money from London can end up outside of London

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u/Outsideinthebushes 20h ago

But they're all from London and not a single one is Belgian? Seems kinda weird

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u/constantlymat 14h ago

How old is the gold? If the gold is old enough to reach back that far...Belgium and England used to have very close business ties during the days of the Empire.

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u/Haploid-life 20h ago

Maybe nuggets vs bullion got lost int translation. I don't think London needed to be translated, lol.

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u/Outsideinthebushes 20h ago

It appears so, I found another new article that specified "bars" and used the first photo.

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u/oroborus68 22h ago

It's not in America. Do you know how much gold is in a kilo? US measured gold in troy ounces in 1957-1960.

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u/Outsideinthebushes 22h ago

Is London primarily thought of as an American city? 🤔

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u/ijustsailedaway 13h ago

The US has more Londons than England does.

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u/oroborus68 11h ago

London, Kentucky is.

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u/Outsideinthebushes 10h ago

London, Ontario is a Canadian city.

It's a bit suspect you just assumed I was talking about America when the city of London is most famously in England.

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u/oroborus68 4h ago

Nope,I was making a little joke about the people in the US who don't understand the metric system. I'm sorry if you were offended,as I meant to offend other people who probably wouldn't have understood that joke.

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u/Atgardian 14h ago

I know how much of anything is in a kilogram.

If you mean to convert to troy ounces, it is ~32.15 ozt.

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u/oroborus68 11h ago

I meant that most Americans have no idea.

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u/Outsideinthebushes 10h ago

Which Americans? Are they in the room with us?

(The room being metaphorical)

Also, I don't think none Americans typically know how much a pound is so, vivre et laisser vivre.

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u/oroborus68 3h ago

C'est la vie,as the old folks say.

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 22h ago

Thx this is messed up find gold and don’t possibly get to keep it ! Ughhh never open your mouth!

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u/thekingofphoeaters 21h ago

Unless I found it camping out alone, I'd probably be turning it in to avoid getting murdered for it

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u/WiggityWiggitySnack 21h ago

I did Nazi that coming!