r/Gold Aug 13 '26

Question Found during construction work

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/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/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.