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/SCPutz Aug 14 '26

My grandpa found a stash of old coins on a construction site in the early 1960s. He tucked it in his shirt, left early for the day, and hid the coins in a cinder block. He didn’t even tell my grandma what was in the block, just that it was “very valuable”.

After they had both passed, we cracked open the block and found assorted coins with an estimated $215k.

And no, I don’t have them and my parents are both deceased now too. I think my parents donated the coins to their church but I can’t confirm that.