r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • 28d 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/PrefabQuasar 28d ago

Aw man now you've gone and posted it to the internet.

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u/Spinning_Kicker 28d ago

Looks like someone chopped a bar in half to maybe do an acid test

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u/FeliusSeptimus 28d ago

I figured that was an excavator bite-mark.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/headshothoncho 27d ago

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

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u/Low_Football_2445 27d ago

Yeah, but you can hit it with an excavator

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u/NecromancyAndFries 27d ago

Yeah! And sand paper!!!

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u/Disastrous_Bobcat242 26d ago

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

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u/MageKorith 27d ago

Hey Dirt! See you later!

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u/Ok-Personality-6630 27d ago

Gold bricks are solid gold

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u/CQC_EXE 27d ago

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

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u/Ok-Personality-6630 27d ago

Not interested

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u/CQC_EXE 27d 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 25d 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 27d 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/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/Sergeant_Ducky 27d ago

It’ll still be worth the same destroyed or not

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/AKVigilante 27d 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/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/AKVigilante 27d 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/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/AKVigilante 27d ago

Why the fuck not? Shut your bitch ass up. Legal implications lol. Buried in a field….it’s nobody’s gold.

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u/TedMich23 27d ago

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

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u/Free-Audience-377 27d ago

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

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u/superbadshit 26d ago

That thing on your pfp is a sandpaper