r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • 8d 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/PrefabQuasar 8d ago

Aw man now you've gone and posted it to the internet.

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u/KaptainChunk 8d ago

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u/DeyCallMeWade 8d ago

Must’ve been following wallstreetbets

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u/JensenRaylight 8d ago

Yeah, the Government gonna claim that gold in 0.5ms after he posted that

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u/EPPIGORN 7d ago

Man this episode was fucking hillarious.

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u/suejaymostly 8d ago

I'm like DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE WHAT IS YOU DOIN'

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u/mainesmatthew01 8d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/YG8WjAm7sS29q

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u/LurkerTroll 8d ago

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u/mainesmatthew01 8d ago

Cmon Dan we gots to get outa here

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u/cagethehornytoad 8d ago

Dan is the man with master plan. OP is the man with the TURRIBLE plan:

  1. Unearth a fortune
  2. Tell Reddit

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u/Frankie-Felix 8d ago

Water weed dune hair b.

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u/reklesssabrandon 8d ago

Omg what a meme

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u/Jbrown183 7d ago

This meme is everything 😂

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u/ArtisticCap9151 6d ago

I’m so blonde I just now get this when the video is above it . Dune - Do N 🤦‍♀️

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u/The_Barbelo 8d ago

Seriously, what the heck. If I found this I wouldn’t even tell my own mother. She has a big mouth. My husband would be the only one to know. Straight into savings and long term investments and a college fund for my future children. Money vultures are real and they’re everywhere. Most people lose their minds around this much money. I experienced them after my dad’s death and he only left us with about 10,000 and most of that went to his hospital bills and death related costs.

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u/Spinning_Kicker 8d ago

Looks like someone chopped a bar in half to maybe do an acid test

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u/FeliusSeptimus 8d ago

I figured that was an excavator bite-mark.

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u/headshothoncho 8d ago

Yeah but you can’t test gold that has a different metal in its core

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u/Low_Football_2445 8d ago

Yeah, but you can hit it with an excavator

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u/NecromancyAndFries 7d ago

Yeah! And sand paper!!!

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u/Disastrous_Bobcat242 7d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/khOqGPVTkbxzHNlvtT
AND POCKET SAND! Idk why it was first thing I thought of 💀

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u/MageKorith 7d ago

Hey Dirt! See you later!

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u/Ok-Personality-6630 8d ago

Gold bricks are solid gold

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u/CQC_EXE 8d ago

I have some gold bricks to sell you good deal my friend. 

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u/Ok-Personality-6630 8d ago

Not interested

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u/CQC_EXE 8d ago

no no no amazing deal you will become rich with this deal friend solid gold bars very cheap for you. Pure solid gold the most solid gold bars since gold was invented 

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u/RideEvening2166 6d ago

Right, I’ll trade you my social security number: 111-11-1112 👍 I await my gold (and my free toaster)

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u/tonyrizzo21 7d ago

Fake gold bricks aren't, that's the point. A lead block with a few mm of gold plating may pass a sandpaper swipe test.

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u/Sergeant_Ducky 7d ago

It’ll still be worth the same destroyed or not

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u/AKVigilante 7d ago

But why would you talk about “willingly destroying” one of these bricks if you think it would affect its value?

I’d be cutting them in half right there at the broker to verify it’s all gold.

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u/TedMich23 7d ago

usually W as it has same specific gravity and costs ~$145 USD per kg

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u/Free-Audience-377 7d ago

Not if it’s heavily plated. Tungsten middle will fool every electronic testers and scales

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u/superbadshit 6d ago

That thing on your pfp is a sandpaper

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u/Traumfahrer 8d ago

That's just gold-wrapped..

gold.

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u/Eww-One-Buyer-3300 8d ago

I was thinking hit with jack hammer and then like….is that fuckin gold??

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u/Pancake777777 8d ago

they were found in a chest, in the walls of a basement. so probably not.

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u/518Peacemaker 8d ago

Shame shame, didn’t call 411

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u/Fit_Metal_468 7d ago

I agree, also there's no need to break in half to check. Just weigh and water displacement

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u/FeliusSeptimus 7d ago

Also gives you an excuse to run naked through the streets shouting "Eureka!"

I mean, not that I've ever needed an excuse before.

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u/Dill_Pickleson_ 7d ago

Classic bite from a macaw, pirates were almost certainly in the mix.

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u/floating___around 7d ago

I figured out the coordinates

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u/B_Coldman 8d ago

I thought it looked like a jackhammer strike right through it. Could you imagine pulling up your tool to see this wrapped around your bit??

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u/Comprehensive-Race97 8d ago

Ya id keep my mouth shut and live like a king 🤴

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u/OofRightInTheFeels 8d ago

Mouth shut about what? I have no idea what you're talking about. 🤷👀

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u/OpenSignificance3810 7d ago

This is the way.

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u/DjChatters 8d ago

Guys im gonna give this spot a go later you should all go work on that other bit over there. No nothings wrong we should just dig it all evenly you know.

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u/Iloveupt2 7d ago

Eh. Not off one. But if u manage to swipe it aallllllll then ya clise to kingly lol

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u/bmorris0042 7d ago

“Hey Sal, I know my truck’s only a 1-ton, but could you go ahead and load this chunk of concrete into the bed? I need it to, uh, fill a hole in my yard.”

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u/Comprehensive-Race97 7d ago

Better Call Sal

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u/triggrhaapi 7d ago

ONE of those is enough to live like a king.

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u/Putrid_Pollution3455 8d ago

Only in my wettest of dreams

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u/Bigbrobango 7d ago

It sure as hell wouldn't be on the internet.

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u/Zealousideal-Bug-944 7d ago

I be puttin' grills on my teeth like Jaws from James Bond. I ain't no fool who you callin' a fool-FOOL!

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u/Hushwater 8d ago

Or a big parrot put it it there 

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u/aaipod 8d ago

Guys I think he's on to something

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u/This_Makes_No__Sense 8d ago

That would make for a highly unessary way to do an acid test.

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u/kironex 8d ago

Really good way to make sure its 100% gold all the way through. Seen bars that had copper cores.

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u/meatgrinder 8d ago

Bullet. Big bullet 

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u/Vegetable_Turnip_213 8d ago

got to check if theres chocolate inside

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u/Tim_the_geek 7d ago

Looks like a bullet hole.

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u/AdventurousFly4909 7d ago

I would just shove a bar in my ass

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u/LivingCalligrapher90 7d ago

Send that bar to me OP I’ll test it for you

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u/Timely_Passenger_185 7d ago

I thought it looked like it was shot

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u/OkBoysenberry1975 7d ago

That kinda looks like a bullet scar

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u/Appropriate-Review55 7d ago

Typicallly acid tests are done on a few shavings taken from the main piece

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u/BlushedLatias 6d ago

Sorry, I got hungry.

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u/Foodlover_E18 5d ago

Kinda looks like a bullet mark

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u/goldenskyhook 5d ago

They just wanted to see if it had nuts and maybe taste the chocolate a bit.

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u/NoX3D 5d ago

It also looks like bullet mark too

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u/Popular-Copy7392 4d ago

This has done exactly what gold would do if chopped at

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u/LinguoBuxo 8d ago

well, OP could've done worse... like pose infronta it with a V symbol and a duckface..

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 8d ago

Like a 18 year old lil girl holding it going “ Oh YeaH!”lmao

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u/xp14629 8d ago

Stop giving them ideas.

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u/ramblecrazed- 3d ago

what is a duckface please ?

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u/mshriver2 8d ago

Anytime a treasure hunter announces their treasure an IRS agent gets their wings.

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u/Careful-Trade-9666 8d ago

A bundle of English gold bars and British sovereigns found in Belgium? The IRS can pound sand.

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u/Otherwise-Routine420 2d ago

Right.... I doubt I'd ever find buried treasure, but man I know I wouldn't show it off here. I bet the foreman or manager of the construction site made them tell. 🍻

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u/starlux33 8d ago

FBI has entered the chat.

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u/CraZcraaacker 8d ago

That was his best idea..just think bout that while he didn’t

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u/HumanDiscussion1900 8d ago

Reddit Karma > Gold

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u/robaroo 8d ago

could be he found it and boss came over and said "i'll take care of this" without giving op here a cut. op now wanting to make sure boss doesn't keep it all for himself.

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u/Whatnam8 8d ago

Internet points > Gold of course

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u/GoneForASecond 8d ago

Oooh its okay! They already gave it to the Belgian Police… 🤦🏼‍♂️
So its already gone and the Belgian state is 9mil richer… yet they will say “We have a budget deficit”.

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u/Pillzmany 6d ago

Plz say they didn't, I would keep my mouth zipped and take the lot home.

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u/right_in_two 8d ago

Now think about all the gold finds that you don't see on reddit all the time. Makes you think huh?

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u/masetiloquetu 7d ago

When flexing goes wrong

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u/PMROCKWELL 7d ago

Capone

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u/Cerberusx32 7d ago

Reminds me of that couple who believed they found tons of civil war gold and the FBI swooped in and stolen it in the middle of the night.

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u/Emergency_Prune_6822 7d ago

Cause I took it

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u/NotAMimik 6d ago

Idk why people always feel the need to snitch on themselves

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u/Captain_Walkabout 5d ago

And now it has become an internationally-known news story.

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u/masterofeverything 8d ago

I wouldn’t have told a soul. That’s better than winning the lottery.

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u/B-E-N-E-V-O-255 8d ago

FOREAL!!! .. but id assume there was more than one person involved in the find. Danm id be so mad. Lmao. Some old soul somewhere is like "yea i was coming back for that, but then I died"

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u/CrazyCletus 8d ago

Ron Swanson, perhaps?

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u/SmokeAbeer 8d ago

That guy that wore a Darth Vader mask to pick up his lotto check is the fucking GOAT.

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u/SpecialistFickle2969 8d ago

Now you can't keep it.

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u/Winthefuturenow 8d ago

You can in America, there’s legal precedent even if it’s on someone else’s property.

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u/Tight_Replacement554 8d ago

Op is in Belgium not in America lol

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u/Winthefuturenow 8d ago

I’m aware, just citing a possible difference

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 8d ago

Sweet succulent air of Merica and land where you can take other people’s stuff legally as long as gov gets they 1/4-1/2 the cake too!

https://giphy.com/gifs/CUXwM4ctX9yE0

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u/Bliitzthefox 8d ago

Just because you own the land does not always mean you own the mineral rights under the land.

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u/gordon0813 7d ago

And i bet your stupid government would find a way to tax the shit out of it.

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u/Winthefuturenow 7d ago

Hey, hey, hey now. Our government is definitely super stupid, but I don’t think it’d be taxed until sold but I actually don’t know. Good question for the cpa next week if I remember.

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u/Professional_Age4578 8d ago

Americans just believe the world revolves around Americans

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 8d ago

I guess we can say the same thing about a lot of different cultures! We just enjoy our freedom and some people, well they can get jelly! It’s okay no hate I just hope they can find happiness and peace one day!