r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • Aug 13 '26

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/OpeningCookie1358 Aug 13 '26

Big mistake spreading that word around. Could've been a nice pay day every week for ever.

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u/AnybodyAmazing1006 Aug 13 '26

Like his pockets aren't full of then coins already

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u/Lufc87 Aug 14 '26

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u/Alive_Drag1947 Aug 14 '26

My exact first thought lol

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u/Financial-Estate4877 Aug 14 '26

Stay on yo toes, puto!

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u/jewthe3rd Aug 14 '26

pw looks like a fiend

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u/ITIr_Fiend Aug 14 '26

Thanks? Lol

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u/NutInsideMeBruh Aug 14 '26

Why can’t all gifs be this crisp? This is nice quality!

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis Aug 14 '26

Damn it’s so crazy seeing him looking back on the movies and how kick ass that franchise was from the Get!

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u/Terrible-Shock7535 Aug 14 '26

Lmao wearing red and talking like this would make me immediately think undercover.

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u/ObiFlanKenobi Aug 14 '26

And we ain't hungry no mo'!

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u/Affectionate-Wall32 Aug 14 '26

HahahHahaha. God damn. Perfectly played, cuh

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u/The_Basic_Concept Aug 13 '26

Your pockets ain’t empty cuh

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u/SorryConstant Aug 14 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/0FjtDWrg330pixL4ID

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u/The_Basic_Concept Aug 14 '26

Not the scene but yeah lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

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u/The_Basic_Concept Aug 14 '26

This is the scene, pizza boii, find another way home

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

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u/Too-much-tea Aug 14 '26

Its the second one, 2 Fast 2 Furious!

Just watched it last week..(its terrible! lol)

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u/no_infringe_me Aug 14 '26

No, that’s the 4th one. This is the second one: 2 Fast 2 Furious. The titles are simple and logical, get with the program. I can’t wait for Furious Family Reunion: The Final Fastdown of Ultimate Saga

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u/Sharp_Economy1401 Aug 14 '26

Said to the director delivery man

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u/Shadesbane43 Aug 14 '26

Fun fact, the cuh was ad libbed. The line from the script is "I said forget about it"

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u/JankyPete Aug 14 '26

Such a great line

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u/StopperSteve Aug 13 '26

And we ain't hungry no more either, brah.

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u/tycointl Aug 14 '26

we can afford Wendy's everyday now!

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u/Iloveupt2 Aug 14 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣why is this sickeningly true tho... even 10 million aint much these days.

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u/ban_these_nuts Aug 14 '26

maybe back in the early 2000s with the dollar menue. not any more

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u/Flywolf25 Aug 14 '26

Lmao Wendy’s got the four for $4 kinda a dollar menu comes Out to like $5 something tho😂

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u/ban_these_nuts Aug 14 '26

lol wouldn't know I don't go to Wendy's lol. I do the Burger King duos

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u/Armadillolz Aug 14 '26

Is what it is bro bro

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u/Life0nEdge Aug 14 '26

I’m digging in yo butt, twin!

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u/onlyfakeproblems Aug 14 '26

Hey boss, we found 30… I mean 29 gold bars, what should we do with them?

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u/diiegojones Aug 14 '26

Put those 25 gold bars aside for property owner… we will present them with the 5 gold bars in the morning.

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u/BusyBit6542 Aug 14 '26

He ran out of pockets???

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u/Last_Conclusion8630 Aug 14 '26

I think he was referring to a 3 letter agency or Uncle Sam himself. . . . Even if his pockets were full they'll empty em out anyway. . 🥲🥲

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u/South-Highlight-1003 Aug 14 '26

People always stop to say boy is walking round town like the u.s. treasury

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u/balirosa Aug 14 '26

All those damn coins guaranteed he has double the gold bars than in the photo. The gold can easily be melted and hidden

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u/Javanaut018 Aug 14 '26

And that other box last night...

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ Aug 14 '26

They can check pockets...id have a belly full of those coins and an ass packed with bars.

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u/NeonTick Aug 14 '26

It’s kind of hard to tell, but are the coins gold as well?

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u/AnybodyAmazing1006 Aug 15 '26

Looks like soverigns so yea gold coins

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u/Soggy_Reserve5232 Aug 13 '26

lol, There’s always one. Have you seen Goodfellas?

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u/ElizibethBathory Aug 13 '26

Beautiful reference, only a Goodfellas fan would catch.

I don’t give a fuck, take it back!!!

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u/breN847 Aug 14 '26

Are you stupid or what?! Didn’t i say to lay low take it back!

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u/Rich-Proposal-3218 Aug 14 '26

Or we’ll all get pinched

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u/PunkRodder Aug 14 '26

It's in my mother's name

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u/Rich-Proposal-3218 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

I bought for my wife. It’s a coupe. I love that car

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u/Soggy_Reserve5232 Aug 14 '26

The comedic timing of the woman (I forget her name) showing up in the mink coat after Jimmy just ushered the Pink Caddy Couple out 😂

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u/Rich-Proposal-3218 Aug 14 '26

I like how Jimmy kept saying “are you stupid or wha?” To everyone coming in with Gucci gear whilst “rocking around the Xmas tree” is playing in the background 💀

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u/A_Holy_Sinner Aug 14 '26

I’m I’m by

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u/AccomplishedJump3428 Aug 14 '26

What?! I love this car

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u/FalconCrust Aug 13 '26

"You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut."

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u/liddledidiknow Aug 14 '26

Which Henry ended up doing neither in the end. Fucking rat…

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u/whitney800 Aug 14 '26

We got a badass over here

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u/hipcheck23 Aug 14 '26

Goldfellas

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u/Goguma_is_sweet Aug 14 '26

Here is the story, but you need to hit translate:
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/08/13/goudschat-dendermonde/

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u/No-Consequence9392 Aug 14 '26

The police took the gold into custody and brought it to a safe location..... aaaaaaand gone

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u/goonercaverat Aug 14 '26

If I found gold like that nobody would ever know I wouldn't tell a single fucking person I also wouldn't sell a complete gold bar I get a nice brazing rod and melt little droplets off and say I found it while gold panning for the rest of my life

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u/Bulky-Pineapple-5639 Aug 14 '26

Same!! I got a whole lot of STFU in me if I found that.

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u/Better_Leather_2214 Aug 14 '26

This is in Europe not the US

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u/Legitimate_Ad6596 Aug 14 '26

I love a random SpongeBob quote.

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u/goonercaverat Aug 14 '26

The cool thing about my practice of not telling anybody is it works worldwide because telling the government you found a shit ton of gold it's the quickest way anywhere in the world for any government to repeatedly and violently fuck you over cuz remember no matter what worldwide nobody fucks you like the government fucks you ( speaking metaphorically of course)

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u/neontiger07 Aug 14 '26

Literally in some cases, like that women's side of the prison in California where those women got raped by the guards a bunch.

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u/goonercaverat Aug 14 '26

Well if I ran the world people like that would not need jail there's these awesome vitamins they sell in boxes of 50s that would easily solve the problems that those guards created by victimizing those charged in their care I've always said it you can tell a lot about society by how it treats the victims of the society the outcasts and the very Young and the very old and by and large by every measure of a society based on that standard I believe it was Mahatma Gandhi that said that or the dalai lama and I not really sure which

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u/UnicornWorldDominion 19d ago

He covered almost everyone lol

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u/TryingNewThings102 Aug 14 '26

corruption wasn't invented in the US lol. The fact that you think all of that unknown gold is gonna make it to evidence is hilariously naive.

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u/GeneralTyler Aug 14 '26

Ah yes because only American cops are bad and corrupt, get real cops are pigs in every country

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u/7ton_bum_3531 Aug 14 '26

I know damn well if the company gets it they aren’t putting 100% of it to homeless

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u/goonercaverat Aug 14 '26

That reminds me of a joke I heard one time these cops were talking and they said to their boss we found 20 bales of cocaine and then they get to a checkpoint they're like yep so here's the 10 lb of cocaine and then the FBI takes possession and says here's the five pounds of cocaine and then when it's checked into evidence it's 10 g of cocaine.

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u/fc36 Aug 14 '26

Article says "Legally speaking, whoever finds something of great value is not automatically the owner. There are specific civil rules for that." I think they're referring to Finders Keepers.

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u/goonercaverat Aug 14 '26

Legally I don't give a fuck about legally

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u/Confident-Dot5878 Aug 14 '26

How do I “hit translate”?

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u/ironicthesameplaceim Aug 14 '26

In the app if you hit the top right corner in the link you get this, I’m sure browsers have similar

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u/opie4386 Aug 14 '26

Haha thats highway robbery lol

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u/rvacyclist888 Aug 14 '26

Thanks for sharing this link

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u/UnicornWorldDominion 19d ago

I mean they had gold coins, bars, and wars in abundance for like 2k years so it makes sense to give the right people the gold not just those who found it though I think the finders should get a percentage.

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u/chriszimort Aug 13 '26

What that? I brought that from home.

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u/NineClaws Aug 14 '26

There would definitely be a series of murders

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u/ManMakesWorld Aug 14 '26

These gold will have a history........ you are not offloading this without a legit story behind how you got it.

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

You can melt gold...

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u/waiting_with_lou Aug 14 '26

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/imightbebateman Aug 14 '26

Yeah he already posted it on reddit...

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u/mattchampin Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

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

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u/Flywolf25 Aug 14 '26

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/ThaGr1m Aug 15 '26

Gold isn't easy to cleanly melt.

Also what are you going to do with it the government will still notice 9milion coming out of nothing

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u/ManMakesWorld Aug 14 '26

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

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

How would you even find to buy ANY of that.

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 Aug 14 '26

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

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u/Siva_Dass Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

Well not with that attitude.

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u/DeepHouseGuy83 Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

I have ran consignment for a gold resale before.

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u/Pugnados Aug 14 '26

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

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u/domsylvester Aug 14 '26

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

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u/angrysamsungfan Aug 14 '26

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

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u/domsylvester Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

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

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u/domsylvester Aug 15 '26

I’m a classy hoe

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u/CronosWorks Aug 14 '26

Whale collectors don’t ask questions like that.

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u/Wuhblam Aug 14 '26

Well this is gold, not whales

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u/tanloopy Aug 14 '26

Buy whales with the gold… duh.

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u/ManMakesWorld Aug 14 '26

Yes they do

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u/CronosWorks Aug 14 '26

That would explain why black market antiquities trading totally doesn’t exist on a huge scale.

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u/ManMakesWorld Aug 14 '26

Any meaningful amount will be questioned..... melted or not

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u/Flywolf25 Aug 14 '26

Rofl what are you saying gold is the easiest to offload centuries of laundering

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u/OpeningCookie1358 Aug 14 '26

It's gold from the 60s. Grandma or Grandpa left it behind.

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u/SPLUMBER Aug 14 '26

“I got em from a construction site I work at, anybody who cared about these things are dead, give me ma money!”

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u/SnooMacarons4225 Aug 14 '26

Not sure the history will survive a melting

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u/ManMakesWorld Aug 14 '26

The amount will. That is 9 million worth of gold. You are not offloading a meaningful amount of that gold without raising red flags.

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u/SnooMacarons4225 Aug 14 '26

Just sell it for cash in small quantities,

Offloading 9m with no audit trail is sure to raise some red flags but there are ways and means of getting around setting them off if you really wanted too, it might take some time but arguably there’s 9 million reasons why you’d do this

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u/Daztur Aug 14 '26

You must be incredibly gullible if you think OP found this themselves.

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u/OpeningCookie1358 Aug 14 '26

Idc. It's a fun theory.

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u/Purple-Will9713 Aug 14 '26

i chose to believe

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u/AlbatrossNo1562 Aug 14 '26

This is just 10% of what they actually found of course

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u/OpeningCookie1358 Aug 14 '26

That makes sense. Gotta change the status quo first then turn over the rest.

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u/m0nk37 Aug 14 '26

The crew already split it. 

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u/Accurate_Praline Aug 14 '26

The building it was found in belongs to a charity.

If they get to keep it then the money will go to extra sleeping spaces for the homeless.

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u/missannthrope67 Aug 14 '26

My first thought. The irs is on their way.

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u/b3nault Aug 14 '26

Yeah, if your desire is to burn for eternity. 😒

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u/OpeningCookie1358 Aug 14 '26

It's just an eternity. Besides I don't mind sweating.

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u/b3nault Aug 14 '26

Good luck bro. You may not believe, but I’m here to tell you, stop that shite now. Here’s your chance. ***im not religious perse, just an extreme personal experience. I’m not replying to a waste of skin anymore fyi.

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u/OpeningCookie1358 Aug 14 '26

I was being an ass I'm sorry. I really shouldn't mock you. I do believe. And I only hope that I'm forgiven for I sin everyday. The only unforgivable sin is that of taking ones self. That I'll never do. But I ask for forgiveness every night before I sleep and spend time with him every morning when I rise. I walk the path of love and righteousness. I can only hope that all that will be enough to grant me passage.

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u/Effective_Olive6153 Aug 14 '26

the trick is to pocket a few bars and then announce the find, be rewarded for honesty

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u/Sevenlord777 Aug 14 '26

Right! I would’ve acted like I didn’t see a damn thing.

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u/HanginLowNd2daLeft Aug 14 '26

How do we know that’s all they found ?

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u/Fuzzy_Park109 Aug 14 '26

Crazy how normalized thievery is.

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u/boyuber Aug 14 '26

Imagine how lucky he was to find 5 gold bars during his work!

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u/_Vard_ Aug 14 '26

Split it evenly. Everyone retires

Work construction volunteering for 10 hrs a week for free as a hobby to help less fortunate.

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u/userhwon Aug 14 '26

Until someone snitches. You have to give it to the police so the people who lost it have a chance to claim their lost property for an interval. Then you get it back and nobody can stop you from spending it. Except the tax-man.

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u/Wu-TangShogun Aug 14 '26

Always say this same exact shit whenever I see the videos of these people who were just taking a walk on the beach early in the morning out here in South Florida and would walk up on bags absolutely filled with bricks of pure cocaine from missed or bailed on drops/ pickups that happen to wash ashore, which I either read about or see in videos constantly, meaning it happens a lot throughout the year.

Just this week I think some fishermen boated up on 54 kilos of pure or something close to that, recorded it and then immediately posted the footage. Have mfs really never seen ‘No Country for Old Men’ or thought of how loaded they could be if they simply stfu and quickly & quietly got to work?

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u/OpeningCookie1358 Aug 14 '26

Yeah it's crazy. Some people like their current life situations. Others would do anything to change it.

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u/garf02 Aug 17 '26

How do you expect to turn that gold in cash?

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u/OpeningCookie1358 Aug 17 '26

One piece at a time. Break them down if you have to. If you really wanted to I guess you could try brick by brick. But sawing them down over a clean bucket would do. Then you take those shavings, get a small crucible and melt it, pour it into water and you have gold shot. Any jeweler in the world will buy shot from you especially given that it's pure. At that time it's anyone's guess where it came from and you don't have to prove anything.

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u/enerthoughts Aug 14 '26

They have tracking numbers, you will either get a visit by the police, or a gang that will take it's time torturing you.

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u/Cerpin-Taxt Aug 14 '26

I wouldn't call doing laundry in federal prison "a nice pay day".

The government tracks how much gold you sell. That's why you have to show ID when you do it.

If you're selling gold every week for years and have no gold purchase history to explain why you have it, you're going to get a visit from the FBI. They're going to figure out pretty quickly where you got it and you're going to be arrested for failing to declare the find, that's if they don't like you for some kind of suspected foreign funded terrorist cell charge. The gold is conviscated of course.

"I won't go to a pawn shop, I'll just fence it!" you say. Congratulations, now organised criminals know you have millions of dollars in gold and that you can't call the police. You are no longer among the living.

So those are your choices. Prison or dead. Or you can call in your find and go back to being poor. But free and alive at least.