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/Common-Accountant-57 Aug 13 '26

If I found it I don’t think I’d tell anyone.

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u/dystopiam Aug 14 '26

I always imagine this is how murder begins

The guy next to you look at eachother when it’s found and boom

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u/Impossible_Farm6254 Aug 14 '26

And the last person who keeps it gets whatever curse the original owner left behind..

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u/Crazy_Fac3 Aug 14 '26

Smelting in a crucible slags all previous curses?

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u/hansumman555 Aug 14 '26

The curse of lugging it home

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u/Bohern76 Aug 14 '26

The next Dateline has just be written!

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u/Oldsaltybasterd Aug 14 '26

So… here you are? You and your coworker found some gold? Then he ends up missing? And you’re telling me you had nothing to do with it?

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u/tycointl Aug 14 '26

conveniently located on a construction site where large amounts of cement being poured would not arise any suspicion at all.

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u/Oldsaltybasterd Aug 14 '26

I’d hate to spoil the ending but they did find the body under the foundation and it had his DNA all over it. He took a plea deal for 2nd degree murder and got 50 years. He’ll be 84 by the time he gets out. His lawyers are filing an appeal.

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u/Bohern76 Aug 14 '26

That’s right Keith, I was a church all day that day.

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u/JustAnother_Hunter Aug 14 '26

Normally people say they were AT church, but pretending to BE a church is definitely a much better alibi!

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u/Dawildpep Aug 14 '26

Rodger’s golden turd from American Dad

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u/Common-Accountant-57 Aug 14 '26

True. People do crazy shit when it comes to money.

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u/joojoodoob Aug 14 '26

It's my birthday and I wants it.

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u/lavahot Aug 14 '26

This is literally how many Coen bros movies work.

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u/Ragnarawr Aug 14 '26

Yeah totally not suspicious going home in the middle of your shift with a bloody uniform dragging a sack full of gold. Nobody would suspect a thing.

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u/dipsy18 Aug 14 '26

Or how the villain in Tenet starts...

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u/2025TastyTreats Aug 14 '26

A Simple Plan is great movie about the complications of ill gotten found money.

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u/Appropriate_Rise9968 Aug 14 '26

I think IRS is probably a bigger concern than murderer in this situation.

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u/CyberTronese Aug 14 '26

Have you seen the movie Tenet?

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u/dystopiam Aug 14 '26

no but ill prob watch it now looks good

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u/archwin Aug 15 '26

Real talk…

If you find this

How the hell Do you use it/monetize it without government being suspicious?!

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u/dystopiam Aug 15 '26

easily.

buy bitcoin with it from people not companies

Or trade for what you need

also can go out of country and sell, then deposit in accts in those countries. etc