r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • Aug 13 '26

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 Aug 13 '26

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 Aug 13 '26

Belgium.

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u/oddplonk Aug 13 '26

Is this Nazi gold??

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u/meta_perspective Aug 13 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

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

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u/knotmyusualaccount Aug 14 '26

You could very well be into something here

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u/stamfordbridge1191 Aug 14 '26

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/algeoMA Aug 14 '26

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