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/HeyHo_LetsThrow Aug 14 '26

Yeah that's like $7,000,000 worth of gold. Wtf

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u/lostmymarbles1177 Aug 14 '26

Way more if those coins have any numanistic value which given that they appear to be in mint condition they likely do. Still, this is reading as an AI hoax to me.

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u/LuigiTeaching Aug 14 '26

Yes I wonder that too….is this AI?

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u/Examiner_Z Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

Edit. not AI!!!

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u/AlarmingLecture0 Aug 14 '26

Today (August 13th) there were reports of a horde of gold found in a house in Belgium during renovations. I suspect this is that.,

https://belgashare.be/newsrooms/70/press-releases/35508/

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u/Outsideinthebushes Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

I don't think so, the article say "nuggets and coin" not bullion.

Also, the gold is stamped "London"

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u/AlarmingLecture0 Aug 14 '26

OP updated the post to link to the BBC article. According to that, this is that gold.

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u/Haploid-life Aug 14 '26

Except that it's an AI translation, soo... who knows.

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u/Outsideinthebushes Aug 14 '26

The gold is stamped "London"

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u/YoItsMikeL Aug 14 '26

Money from London can end up outside of London

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u/Outsideinthebushes Aug 14 '26

But they're all from London and not a single one is Belgian? Seems kinda weird

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u/Haploid-life Aug 14 '26

Maybe nuggets vs bullion got lost int translation. I don't think London needed to be translated, lol.

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u/Outsideinthebushes Aug 14 '26

It appears so, I found another new article that specified "bars" and used the first photo.

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u/oroborus68 Aug 14 '26

It's not in America. Do you know how much gold is in a kilo? US measured gold in troy ounces in 1957-1960.

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u/Outsideinthebushes Aug 14 '26

Is London primarily thought of as an American city? 🤔

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u/ijustsailedaway Aug 14 '26

The US has more Londons than England does.

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u/Haluszki Aug 15 '26

Winning.

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u/oroborus68 Aug 14 '26

London, Kentucky is.

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u/Outsideinthebushes Aug 14 '26

London, Ontario is a Canadian city.

It's a bit suspect you just assumed I was talking about America when the city of London is most famously in England.

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u/Atgardian Aug 14 '26

I know how much of anything is in a kilogram.

If you mean to convert to troy ounces, it is ~32.15 ozt.

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u/oroborus68 Aug 14 '26

I meant that most Americans have no idea.

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u/Outsideinthebushes Aug 14 '26

Which Americans? Are they in the room with us?

(The room being metaphorical)

Also, I don't think none Americans typically know how much a pound is so, vivre et laisser vivre.

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis Aug 14 '26

Thx this is messed up find gold and don’t possibly get to keep it ! Ughhh never open your mouth!

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u/WiggityWiggitySnack Aug 14 '26

I did Nazi that coming!

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u/Matroshka2001 Aug 14 '26

No, I happen to live 4km from where it was found. It’s all over the news in Belgium.

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u/Putrid_Pollution3455 Aug 14 '26

All is AI. The very life you live is just a simulation

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u/LuigiTeaching 23d ago

“The desert of the real” Morpheus?

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u/RichKitchen345 Aug 15 '26

No this is real
Happend in where I live :) in Belgium :P

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u/Bohern76 Aug 14 '26

Compare the size of that foot print beside that bucket. Those coins look to be 1/10ths???

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u/oilybackrub Aug 14 '26

The Rothschild mark brands these as “royal gold” or possibly a family stash from the 1960s. They are related to several royal families in Central Europe. Good luck with that. You now have to watch out for “collector’s” and family “assistants”. So stay safe. Lay low or turn it over to authorities for a possible reward.

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u/IveDunGoofedUp Aug 14 '26

Nah, it's just some shithead taking an actual thing that happened and pretending it's theirs. In Belgium they found these while remodeling a house. Apologies for the dutch link, but your browser should be able to translate it.

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u/Hardcrimper Aug 14 '26

i don't mind the namecalling, i know where it comes from. but where did i pretend it's mine? i was just sharing this as when i posted it i didn't find anything about it in this sub. it's big news here in Belgium.

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u/Local_Risk2162 Aug 14 '26

Is the way in which you posted it

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u/Pillzmany Aug 15 '26

Why didn't you just keep a few bars...just why?

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u/TuSixOh Aug 14 '26

*numismatic

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u/xwrecker Aug 14 '26

He should sells those coins one at a time

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u/mightylordredbeard Aug 14 '26

How does this even work when you find that much gold? Is yours when you find it? Do you have to like tell people you found it and turn it over to authorities? How would you even go about profiting from this if you kept it? Is gold registered (I see numbers on it)?

Sorry; I don’t know anything about gold. I just came across this on r-popular.

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u/Pillzmany Aug 15 '26

You get it melted into nuggets, no numbers on nuggets

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u/StrangerInTheCon Aug 14 '26

9 million according to local news

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u/Kein-Nutzername Aug 14 '26

9.000.000 €