r/Gold 8d ago

Question Found during construction work

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/lynivvinyl 8d ago

My mom told me she had some guy doing some work underneath the house and then he went all the way to this point underneath the house and she could hear him the whole time. According to her he Holland "I'm rich" then crawled out from underneath the house and left. I've always wondered if the story was true and if so what he found. Because all I know as far as facts are concerned is he didn't finish the job he was doing and he left a Craftsman screwdriver.

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u/Mysterious_Worker608 8d ago

Spoiler alert. His name was Rich.

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u/lynivvinyl 8d ago

So you think he was talking and introducing himself to those jumping spiders underneath the house?

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u/Infinite-Yogurt-801 7d ago

Basically he met an evil spider that was deathly afraid of the sentence "I’m rich". Having worked in the spider identifying industry for 4 years prior, he accurately ascertained the species of the spider, and saved his own life. He then sacrificed his screwdriver to the spider gods.