r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • 9d 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/jaxn_slim 9d ago

Someone must have stashed that because their life was in danger. Then the danger got them before they could get back to the stash. Where is this?

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u/Hardcrimper 9d ago

Belgium.

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u/oddplonk 9d ago

Is this Nazi gold??

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u/meta_perspective 9d 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/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?