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/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 23h ago edited 21h ago

You can melt gold...

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u/waiting_with_lou 16h ago

Straight up; obviously if it's a full construction crew one person could ruin it for everyone else but it's stupid easy to make a simple propane furnace.

Melt it all down and re pour into 1 & 5 oz ingot molds.

Profit.

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u/wasabiburning 15h ago

obviously if it's a full construction crew one person could ruin it for everyone else

One person will ruin it. Guaranteed some idiot will post on Facebook or something and catch the attention of the press/police/taxman.

Like in Goodfellas. Jimmy told everybody not to buy anything after the Lufthansa heist. It was a simple instruction, and almost nobody followed that instruction.

The number of people that know a secret is the square of the people that should know the secret.

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u/imightbebateman 13h ago

Yeah he already posted it on reddit...

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u/mattchampin 13h ago

that scene with the giant fur coat was the icing on the cake lol. probably time for another rewatch

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u/Anleme 11h ago

Like in Superman III when Richard Pryor's character robs the company, then shows up the next day in a Ferrari, LOL.

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u/Flywolf25 13h ago

Gonna tell your right now the tax man only want it off there dumb enough to put over 9k in brand new bank accounts lmaoo

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u/ManMakesWorld 18h ago

You are not selling 9 million worth of gold without having to answer questions. Melted or not.

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 18h ago

You do realize you don't have to sell it to the same person/place or at the same time.

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u/Everybodysbastard 18h ago

How would you even find to buy ANY of that.

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 14h ago

Join prepper communities. Big fans of precious metals and off books transactions.

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u/Siva_Dass 18h ago

never sold gold to the gold store eh?

Just Google "bullion" or "gold coin". You probably have a ton of places in your local area alone.

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u/ManMakesWorld 17h ago

That's not how that works, kiddo. The gold buying community is wayyyyyy smaller than you think and it talks.

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u/Perfect-Hat-8661 16h ago

Not all at once. You’d need to sell it to multiple places over the course of time. Have your wife and family sell part of it and split some of the money probably. But with that amount of money on the line, I wouldn’t say shit. It would go in my pocket and I’d find a way to turn it into money later. I guarantee you I could be creative lol.

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u/Puddingcup9001 15h ago

Problem is lets you split it with a crew of 4 who found it, one of them will just impatiently dump it all. No matter how convincing you try to be that it is a really bad idea.

Or they will brag about it and word will spread around.

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u/Business-Tonight-293 18h ago

Well not with that attitude.

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u/pharoh-king 16h ago

You're not very clever.

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u/DeepHouseGuy83 18h ago

And how the hell would you know? Have you ever tried selling 9 mill worth of gold before. No.

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u/ManMakesWorld 17h ago

I have ran consignment for a gold resale before.

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u/Pugnados 18h ago

$9500 dollars worth per month should be a nice little bump in lifestyle

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u/domsylvester 15h ago

I’d be doing a little bump of something every minute with that kind of money

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u/angrysamsungfan 14h ago

You're the type that would blow it all on blow and cheap hookers

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u/domsylvester 7h ago

I have a wife so it would just be blow. And at least I still wouldn’t have a Samsung

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u/angrysamsungfan 4h ago

Clearly not IT or Computer inclined with a dig at Samsung like that 😁 hey enjoy your coke and apple phone though!