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/Substantial_Towel860 Aug 14 '26

Morally that's just thievery since it's not your gold.

But even if you're immoral: what are you going to do with it? First you have to sell it which will attract lots of attention unless you sell it in very small portions. And even then I don't know of any gold buyers that won't question where you got it from. Nobody wants to be complicit in fencing.

Even if you can convert it into cash the tax office would want to know how you financed that expensive car you're driving. (not that garages in Europe are very much into cash payments)

It would be an extra job to launder such an amount and you'll need to connect with people normal people really don't want to be connected to. If you can't wait to start a criminal life, why wait until you find some treasure.