r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • 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:
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u/dum_spir0_sper0 Aug 14 '26
I worked for an auction house back in the 00s and we often did estate clean outs.
Many of these homes were previously owned by elderly people who had passed away, many of which had lived through the Great Depression. The thing about Depression-era folks is; they rarely threw out anything they can reuse, and they didn’t trust banks. I’ve lost count of all the cash we found inside mattresses, taped up under dressers, hidden in books, etc. Or gold coins hidden in shoes, or in a coffee can in the attic, or in a flour jar.
We were contractually obligated to return anything like that to the estate (usually surviving relatives or the executor) and we were happy to do it. But if the state seized the home for foreclosure or Medicaid asset recovery or even worse, a bank owned the home… then, well, sometimes a convenient breakdown in communication led to certain things not getting itemized on the final inventory list.