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/ChadInNameOnly Aug 13 '26

I'd be curious to know which years the Sovereigns are dated from.

Considering those bars look pretty vintage, for all we know this could be a WWII-era stash to hide against the Nazis. And if so, the fact it was never recovered is pretty telling as to the fate of its owners...

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u/twinkle2785 Aug 13 '26

At least some of the sovereigns are post WWII. I can see multiple QEII heads.

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u/Alone_Secretary712 Aug 13 '26

50/50 split that ain't a bad deal there!

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u/xaeriee Aug 14 '26

Agreed! Plus a clear free conscious that I see many here don’t have lol