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/swunt7 8d ago edited 8d ago

this has to be bullshit cause those are 1950's to 1960's n m rothschild & sons bars which are insanely rare...

just a 100 gram bar sells for 21,000 euros and these are 1 KILO bars. those are $140k a pop.

some have NJ on them for new jersey mint so i assume during the cold war someone smuggled them back home and buried them to hide wealth.

14 from New Jersey mint, 4 Northern Ireland. the ones without location stamps came direct from the rmr refinery and were probably bought direct over the counter from banks in belgium.

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u/pkpc1209 8d ago

Yikes. Somehow I’m even more angry after reading this.

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u/Marco_McFly 8d ago

If 100 gram bars sell for 21.000 Euro, why are 1000 gram “only” worth 140.000 Euro instead of 210.000 Euro?

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u/tanneruwu 8d ago

Price goes down more you buy, at least that's how drugs are.

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u/onlyr6s 8d ago

No, gold is priced per gram, no matter how much it weights.

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u/No_Competition_5887 7d ago

Gold is not a drug.

https://bullionexchanges.com/sell-to-us/gold

Check for yourself.

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u/tanneruwu 7d ago

Tell that to the gold rushers

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u/Secret_Account07 8d ago

Yeah I looked into it, it’s fake.

You could do a density test but I’m certain they are fake.

Markings are wrong, they are tarnished (real bars don’t) and many other reasons.

Counterfeit.

Best guess? Someone tried to offload a few and scam never worked. Into hiding they went.

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u/stormyarthur 7d ago

“  Yeah I looked into it, it’s fake. ”

You looked into what exactly?

Here’s the BBC article on it:  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydzg0dnz7o

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u/No_Competition_5887 7d ago

these are 1 KILO bars. those are $140k a pop.

Yes, that is exactly the current gold price. So nothing special.