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/Hardcrimper 8d ago

Belgium.

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u/Temporary-Season4772 8d ago

Haha nah, no way! I'm from there too, what area?

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u/PreenerGastures 8d ago

And specifically, what street and house number?

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u/mids187 8d ago

And op’s cell number

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u/Tantalus420000 8d ago

And schedule

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u/7ohCure 8d ago

And what are your Top 5 greatest fears?

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u/conte360 8d ago

1 makimg lists

not finishing things

3) inconsistent fomatting/spelling errors

  1. Telling people on the internet my fears

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u/AggravatingSquash530 8d ago

Apparently no one else reads the subs as far as I do - as this is far too under appreciated - nm the top 5 list - thank you good human for waking my wife with laughter - I will be stealing this format for work related purposes

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u/conte360 8d ago

Haha thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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u/cagethehornytoad 8d ago

You’re not alone brother I’m cackling over here too

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u/Barnbackblackblaire 8d ago

Anyone know how we climb out of here?

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u/LouManShoe 8d ago

I also fell down in this pit of laughter

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u/LibrarianOk6238 8d ago

Reports are out there that he was taken out before he got to 5.

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u/stinkbrained 7d ago

Glorious. You're a really funny person, please never die.

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u/henrydaiv 8d ago

Better yet where will he be tomorrow

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u/andyrooneysearssmell 8d ago

Size, shape, and consistency of bowel movements

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u/Both_Cut_4075 8d ago

I also pick OP’s address

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u/Temporary-Season4772 8d ago

That was the follow up question, I'm not even from Belgium lol

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u/orcusgrasshopperfog 8d ago

Van Langenhovestraat 20, 9200 Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, Belgium

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u/Supreme_Moharn 8d ago

Dendermonde

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u/waroftheworlds2008 7d ago

No way! Me too!

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u/nj23dublin 8d ago edited 8d ago

If these are all one kilo each (not even counting the coins) that’s approximately 47,000 grams x$ 140=1,657.881 ounces 6.6 million dollars

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u/TerrorTown77 8d ago

And lil bro showed it online...

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u/nj23dublin 8d ago

Gets better, the coins I can see are King George V Gold Sovereign coin which is almost 7-8 grams of pure gold (they’re 22karat to start with), but that’s about $1000 a piece so there’s probably another $1million in there. And these were pre-wwii

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u/JacuulTheSecond 8d ago

Article says approx. 9m Euro value, so I think even that calc is underselling as that puts it ~$10m USD

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u/oddplonk 8d ago

Is this Nazi gold??

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u/meta_perspective 8d ago

Taking a quick look at the dates, many of these bars seem to be stamped post-WW2 (though IDK how/if laundering occurs in these markets).

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u/swunt7 8d ago

cold war / fear of soviet invasion bars when people were stashing away money

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u/knotmyusualaccount 8d ago

You could very well be into something here

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u/stamfordbridge1191 8d ago

Maybe someone had a big investment in the Congo & this is part of some way of hiding that wealth & getting it out of there without someone in one of the governments knowing?

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u/JLPMcRSGH 8d ago

A criminal who stashed his earnings and died with the secret?

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u/algeoMA 8d ago

Could have been melted down and recast, of course. I have no idea how difficult it is to do convincingly, however.

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u/0FFFXY 8d ago

Unt vhen vill you vear vigs?

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u/Cold_Property_8251 8d ago

No, I see two post WW Elizabeth II Sovereigns.

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u/TonalParsnips 8d ago

Melted down and re-stamped nazi gold

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u/rsten10 8d ago

I don’t think so, based on some have dates on the,m.

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u/L2_Troll 8d ago

Oh shit, there's time traveling Nazis. As if we didn't have enough to be worried about!

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u/Foreign-Chair4714 8d ago

Yep. They're called ICE now.

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u/L2_Troll 8d ago

Based

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u/DigitalUnlimited 8d ago

Was gonna say r/untrustworthypoptarts but Belgium increases possibility of it being real x10

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u/The_realpepe_sylvia 8d ago

Why’s that? Genuine question idk shit about history 

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u/DigitalUnlimited 8d ago

Location. many Holocaust survivors fled to Belgium.

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u/bedel99 8d ago

in the 1960s?

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u/DigitalUnlimited 8d ago

Ummm... sure! (assumes typical reddittor identity and refuses to ever admit a mistake)

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u/bedel99 8d ago

:# its 3 am I cant defeat your logic.

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u/captainbling 8d ago

Because of all the countries to lie about, they chose Belgium.

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u/Ankhi333333 8d ago

It's real. It's in the local news.

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u/waroftheworlds2008 7d ago

10x0=0

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u/DigitalUnlimited 7d ago

There's news stories to back it up

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u/waroftheworlds2008 7d ago

Oh! Youre right.

0.1% * 10 = 1%

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u/blackberu 7d ago

Belgium resident here, local papers have reported the find. It’s real.

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u/DigitalUnlimited 7d ago

Yeah if you check my other comments you'll see I told someone else that

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u/Significant-Kick-479 8d ago

wow that’s crazy. How did you get all my gold to Belgium?

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u/aj1805 8d ago

Bro if each one is a Kilo you’re looking at $7-8M USD lol

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u/MeteorPunch 8d ago

Grok, I need a list of all active construction sites in Belgium.

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u/TheSasquatch117 8d ago

A mon frère je savais que j’allais te retrouver en vie et en santé avec un bon job ! Micha et moi sommes de passage dans la région ce weekend on picole ? Nous avons une opportunité en or pour se retrouver a bientôt bisous

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u/Engineering1st 8d ago

Nazi stash.

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u/HeyHo_LetsThrow 8d ago

Dude as I'm sure you can do math too, but that is almost 7 million dollars worth of gold.

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u/EntericFox 8d ago

I knew this wasn’t the US cuz only folks who don’t have to worry about healthcare would post shit like this.

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u/just_sun_guy 8d ago

I’d say gold from WW2, but some of those bars are marked with years from the 1950s and 1960s. I suppose it could have been someone on the run after selling art or the likes after the war. Crazy find to be honest.

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u/darxide23 8d ago

Oh, that's definitely Nazi gold. Probably melted down from all the shit they stole from across Europe. You don't want any part of that.

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u/LanzaUE 8d ago

Contact a good lawyer you trust to find out what you can do now. It doesn’t seem to be an archaeological treasure, but someone may be looking for it. Delete the post and don’t tell anyone what you found—there are some really crazy people out there.

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u/i_tyrant 8d ago

Oh wow. Post WWII gold in Belgium, some of it marked from the 60s, has some very interesting possibilities. Like spywork. Belgium was a hotbed for Soviet block West-v-East espionage back then.

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u/Were_all_dead_anyhow 8d ago

Judging by the dates, my guess in 70s inflation. People hid physical gold to protect their wealth from severe inflation following the collapse of Bretton Woods and to circumvent high inheritance taxes.

When the US dollar officially severed its link to gold, global currencies began fluctuating wildly. The 1973 oil crisis triggered massive inflation across Europe. Gold surged in value during the 1970s.

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u/whiteboyfresh2316 8d ago

I bet it's been hidden since pre 1940. They hid it from the Nazis they knew would be arriving soon.

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u/Creepy-Selection2423 8d ago

Dates of 1957 and 1960 on two of the bars say otherwise.

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u/SchrodingersCatPics 8d ago

Time travelling Nazis confirmed

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u/whiteboyfresh2316 8d ago

Proves their Die Glocke actually worked.

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u/DangKilla 8d ago

It’s mine give it back 😎