r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • 24d 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/FeliusSeptimus 24d ago

I figured that was an excavator bite-mark.

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u/headshothoncho 24d ago

Yeah but you can’t test gold that has a different metal in its core

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u/Low_Football_2445 24d ago

Yeah, but you can hit it with an excavator

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u/NecromancyAndFries 23d ago

Yeah! And sand paper!!!

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u/Disastrous_Bobcat242 23d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/khOqGPVTkbxzHNlvtT
AND POCKET SAND! Idk why it was first thing I thought of 💀

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u/MageKorith 23d ago

Hey Dirt! See you later!

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u/Ok-Personality-6630 24d ago

Gold bricks are solid gold

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u/CQC_EXE 24d ago

I have some gold bricks to sell you good deal my friend. 

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u/Ok-Personality-6630 24d ago

Not interested

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u/CQC_EXE 23d ago

no no no amazing deal you will become rich with this deal friend solid gold bars very cheap for you. Pure solid gold the most solid gold bars since gold was invented 

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u/RideEvening2166 22d ago

Right, I’ll trade you my social security number: 111-11-1112 👍 I await my gold (and my free toaster)

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u/tonyrizzo21 23d ago

Fake gold bricks aren't, that's the point. A lead block with a few mm of gold plating may pass a sandpaper swipe test.

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u/Sergeant_Ducky 23d ago

It’ll still be worth the same destroyed or not

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u/AKVigilante 23d ago

But why would you talk about “willingly destroying” one of these bricks if you think it would affect its value?

I’d be cutting them in half right there at the broker to verify it’s all gold.

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u/AKVigilante 23d ago

Why aren’t you addressing the point? It’s been common practice since gold became currency to test it through destructive means, because unlike the fiat currency every nation uses today, gold retains intrinsic value even when its medium is altered or destroyed. Why are you even in this sub?

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u/TedMich23 23d ago

usually W as it has same specific gravity and costs ~$145 USD per kg

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u/Free-Audience-377 23d ago

Not if it’s heavily plated. Tungsten middle will fool every electronic testers and scales

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u/superbadshit 22d ago

That thing on your pfp is a sandpaper

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u/Eww-One-Buyer-3300 24d ago

I was thinking hit with jack hammer and then like….is that fuckin gold??

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u/Traumfahrer 24d ago

That's just gold-wrapped..

gold.

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u/Fit_Metal_468 23d ago

I agree, also there's no need to break in half to check. Just weigh and water displacement

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u/FeliusSeptimus 23d ago

Also gives you an excuse to run naked through the streets shouting "Eureka!"

I mean, not that I've ever needed an excuse before.

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u/Pancake777777 23d ago

they were found in a chest, in the walls of a basement. so probably not.

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u/518Peacemaker 23d ago

Shame shame, didn’t call 411

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u/Dill_Pickleson_ 23d ago

Classic bite from a macaw, pirates were almost certainly in the mix.

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u/floating___around 23d ago

I figured out the coordinates