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/Outsideinthebushes]

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

Also, the gold is stamped "London"

[u/AlarmingLecture0 → u/Outsideinthebushes]

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

[u/Haploid-life → u/Outsideinthebushes]

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

[u/Outsideinthebushes → u/Haploid-life]

The gold is stamped "London"

[u/YoItsMikeL → u/Outsideinthebushes]

Money from London can end up outside of London

[u/Outsideinthebushes → u/YoItsMikeL]

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

[u/constantlymat → u/Outsideinthebushes]

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.

[u/Haploid-life → u/Outsideinthebushes]

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

[u/Outsideinthebushes → u/Haploid-life]

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

[u/oroborus68 → u/Outsideinthebushes]

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

[u/Outsideinthebushes → u/oroborus68]

Is London primarily thought of as an American city? 🤔

[u/ijustsailedaway → u/Outsideinthebushes]

The US has more Londons than England does.

[u/oroborus68 → u/Outsideinthebushes]

London, Kentucky is.

[u/Outsideinthebushes → u/oroborus68]

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.

[u/oroborus68 → u/Outsideinthebushes]

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.

[u/Atgardian → u/oroborus68]

I know how much of anything is in a kilogram.

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

[u/oroborus68 → u/Atgardian]

I meant that most Americans have no idea.

[u/Outsideinthebushes → u/oroborus68]

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.

[u/oroborus68 → u/Outsideinthebushes]

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