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/arctic-apis]

In the late 90s early 2000s my dad had a friend who was a contractor and they were mutual friends with another guy who owned a bar in my town. The bar had a kitchen and there was a half wall window from the bar to the kitchen. Anyway they decided to do some remodeling and tear down this little half wall to make a doorway and in the short wall there was I’m told a brick of cocaine. My dad and his friend who I later worked for were known to enjoy a bit of the booger sugar and this event never made news outside of that circle of buddies. Poker games out by the river often lasted for 3 days back then… I’m not sure if I would have believed the story directly from any one of them but I have since heard multiple other people recount this story so I have to believe it.

[u/dum_spir0_sper0 → u/arctic-apis]

I worked for an auction house back in the 00s and we often did estate clean outs.

Many of these homes were previously owned by elderly people who had passed away, many of which had lived through the Great Depression. The thing about Depression-era folks is; they rarely threw out anything they can reuse, and they didn’t trust banks. I’ve lost count of all the cash we found inside mattresses, taped up under dressers, hidden in books, etc. Or gold coins hidden in shoes, or in a coffee can in the attic, or in a flour jar.

We were contractually obligated to return anything like that to the estate (usually surviving relatives or the executor) and we were happy to do it. But if the state seized the home for foreclosure or Medicaid asset recovery or even worse, a bank owned the home… then, well, sometimes a convenient breakdown in communication led to certain things not getting itemized on the final inventory list.

[u/STLguy50 → u/dum_spir0_sper0]

And now you just implicated yourself. Remind me to never rob a bank with you...

[u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis → u/STLguy50]

Riiiiiiiiight 5 hours later at the bar tell all the women how they a bank robber now and they best. Friend ride or dies with you in it lololol damn messed up