I work in goods inwards for a car spares company, and a while ago I opened a package delivered by FedEx.... It obviously didn't contain car parts, so I checked the delivery note.... Addressed to a computer company a few miles away, and containing " 987 grams 99% pure AU" !!!! Unfortunately I had signed for it, so I gave the company a call.. 20 minutes later a guy turned up to collect. The next day he dropped off a cake for me.. not a lot for returning almost a kilo of gold, but it was pretty cool to hold for a short while!

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

What are the odds? Found pulling up a tent stake on a gravel bar.

Traded my 30.879 gram 24k gold Dragon head bracelet for another 24k gold bracelet at Luk Fook Jewelers in Kai Ping Guangdong China. Weight after melt was 30.869 grams. Here is the video.

Can anyone suggest a value to associate with these or can anyone tell me if there is a meaningful collectors market for them? I need to assign a value and figure out how to liquidate them (if they’re worth anything) but I’ve never seen a goldback before now. I’m asking here because I’m hoping to get actual feedback and not goldback fanboys telling me they’re worth a fortune. Thanks!

Scissors for scale.

This is for the gold lovers that like to look at shiny things.

Somewhere these pictures were scrubbed of meta data, posted on a random laptop on a VPN of somewhere under a cabinet, under a carpet, which has safe box that requires a key to open that is somewhere offsite in a combination lockbox hidden in some offsite random place.

So you don't have to count it there's 255oz here.

I got tasked to pay a client that we owed almost exactly $2000. I reached out in the morning to arrange payment, and told him that I could send BTC immediately, or meet late morning for actual cash. He always refuses to use any payment apps, and I’m not having a ton of luck getting people to use Bitcoin.

Long story short, he said “cash only…..unless you have gold,” but he said it in a joking manner. I took a swing and said ok - wanna call it even for an ounce of gold?

A couple of hours later, one gold eagle wiped out a debt of about $1960.

I know, cool story and who cares, but I thought it was kinda neat.

France just pulled all of its remaining gold out of the

U.S. Federal Reserve — and made $15 billion doing it.

Between July 2025 and January 2026, the Banque de France sold 129 tonnes of gold it had stored in New York since World War II, then used the proceeds to buy higher-quality gold bars on the European market, storing them in its underground vault in Paris.

The move flipped a €7.7 billion net loss in 2024 into an €8.1 billion net profit in 2025. France says the decision was purely technical — older bars needed upgrading to meet modern international standards, and it was easier to buy compliant gold in Europe than to refine and ship the old bars.

France now holds all 2,437 tonnes of its gold domestically — the world's fourth-largest national reserve. Germany, which still holds roughly a third of its gold in New York, is now facing renewed calls to do the same. Central banks worldwide have been quietly repatriating foreign-held gold for years, and France just made the financial case for doing it look even more compelling.

There’s just something about holding gold. Customer wanted $180k in gold so I said…ok. This is just the $100k with the rest in sealed assay cards. So shiny. There’s a reason why they call it gold fever.

Was visiting a goldsmith here in Thailand when they happened to prepping this big guy for delivery, solid 23k Gold. Even more unbelievable, they told me the guy who ordered this ordered 3 of them (that's actually a second one on the shelf in the last photo)... just absolutely insane. Crazy rich Asians over here! Lmao

‼️first post got taken down‼️

They don’t want people freaking out.

I genuinely don’t even know what to do at this point. Gold just jumped another $300 in a single day and is sitting at $5,400 like it’s nothing. This doesn’t feel normal anymore — this feels like something is brewing for February or March. Markets don’t move like this unless there’s stress somewhere under the surface. Wars, debt, banks, liquidity… something is cracking. This pace is unsustainable and honestly unsettling. Either we’re about to see a major pullback, or something big is about to break globally. Prices don’t just go vertical for no reason — and history says when gold moves like this, it’s usually right before people realize what’s coming

Today I went to the refinery and traded in 550lbs of silver bars and non-constitutional rounds for gold. Don’t worry, I still have tons of silver.

Trax NYC has exposed a NYC jewelry company for using his name and scamming customers out of thousands by selling lower-grade jewelry.

Trax took to Instagram to share that AKAY Jewelers has been ripping off customers while operating under his name. Trax showed up at AKAY Jewelers to address the issue and recover the $22,000 they allegedly owe him. Things escalated, and a fight broke out between Trax and the jewelry company.

New York police responded to the incident, and George and Freddy Akay were subsequently arrested and charged with assault, according to a report by The New York Post. Trax was treated for injuries following the confrontation.

Edit:

TraxNYC breaks down the full Diamond District war that exploded after rival jewelers allegedly impersonated his brand and scammed a customer. From a $22,000 refund on New Year’s Eve to physical confrontations and arrests, Trax explains why he snapped and why he won’t tolerate anyone pretending to be him

https://youtu.be/ypMQOl1Imuo (Jan 6, 2026 | 22m11s)

After some research it looks like AI is best conducted through gold, so it’s actually cheaper for them to do this

I found out my grandfather has been purchasing gold and silver through U.S. Money Reserve. I keep it simple with my investing and have never bought anything graded before. No idea on collector value of anything. He paid $12,000 for this. There’s no way it’s even close right?

Traxnyc.com

Wife was informed by our bank that our safety deposit box was being relocated. I had zero memory of this box...apparently it was opened jointly back in 2012...we get to bank and the officer informed us that there were 14 years of unpaid dues on the box hahaha...we paid....took out the box and i find gold i thought was stolen/lost/misplaced during our last house reno 15 years ago...

its now worth +300% or thereabouts ....bought before 2010. Funny how our memory works. Took out everything, closed the box. happy ending

Edit

It's really strange ppl would not believe this lol...I have zero reason to make it up...I just thought it was a nice story to post on this sub. Life happens, back then I was going tru biz issues, bad renovation, first kid,I must have put the stuff in the box for safe keeping and totally forgot about it

Same thing with my wife, she inherited the box from her mom who passed, only opened it once, then it slipped her mind for years and years

Not in the US