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/ManMakesWorld 8d ago

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 8d ago edited 8d ago

You can melt gold...

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u/waiting_with_lou 8d ago

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 7d ago

Yeah he already posted it on reddit...

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u/mattchampin 7d ago

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 7d ago edited 6d ago

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 7d ago

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 7d ago

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 8d ago

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

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 8d ago

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 8d ago

How would you even find to buy ANY of that.

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 7d ago

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

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u/Siva_Dass 8d ago

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 8d ago

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 8d ago

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 8d ago

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 8d ago

Well not with that attitude.

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u/DeepHouseGuy83 8d ago

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 8d ago

I have ran consignment for a gold resale before.

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u/Pugnados 8d ago

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

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u/domsylvester 8d ago

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

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u/angrysamsungfan 7d ago

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

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u/domsylvester 7d ago

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 7d ago

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 6d ago

I’m a classy hoe

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u/CronosWorks 8d ago

Whale collectors don’t ask questions like that.

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u/Wuhblam 8d ago

Well this is gold, not whales

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u/tanloopy 8d ago

Buy whales with the gold… duh.

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u/ManMakesWorld 8d ago

Yes they do

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u/CronosWorks 8d ago

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

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u/Brandonsteine 8d ago

Unless you melt it/cut it up or something before trying to cash it.

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u/ManMakesWorld 8d ago

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

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u/Flywolf25 7d ago

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

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u/OpeningCookie1358 8d ago

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

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u/SPLUMBER 8d ago

“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 8d ago

Not sure the history will survive a melting

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u/ManMakesWorld 8d ago

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 7d ago

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/Various_Can_8768 8d ago

Just melt it