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<h6 class="ra-credit"><span style="color:#260404;">A Frenchman discovers pot of gold in the house he inherited from a deceased relative in Normandy, France</span></h6>
<h6 class="ra-credit"><span style="color:#260404;">The 220lb of gold is worth $3.7 million<br />
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<h6 class="ra-credit"><span style="color:#260404;">The gold was securely hidden around house, under furniture, linen, boxes and in the bathroom</span></h6>
<h6 class="ra-credit"><span style="color:#260404;">The new heir, moving furniture around, uncovered the stash, a box of coins attached to the underside of an item of furniture</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#260404;">Local auctioneer said gold haul weighing 220lb (100kg ) was ‘extremely well hidden’ he missed it himself while appraising furniture in the home</span></h6>
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<article id="ra-body">A Frenchman who inherited a house from a dead relative has discovered a glittering treasure trove of gold coins and bars worth millions.<br />
Hidden away in secret stashes throughout the house in Normandy, France, he came across thousands of gold coins and bars weighing in at over 220lb [100kg], total.<br />
Local auctioneer Nicolas Fierfort, confirming a report in the local La Depeche newspaper as he told <a href="https://www.afp.com/en/home">AFP</a> : “There were 5,000 gold pieces, two bars of 12 kilos and 37 ingots of 1 kilo”.<br />
Fierfort, who had visited the house to appraise furniture offered for sale by the new owner, said the gold collection, which was worth $3.7m ( €3.5m), was “extremely well hidden”.<br />
“It was under the furniture, under piles of linen, in the bathroom &#8230; everywhere,” he said, admitting that he himself had overlooked the gold on his visit.<a href="https://www.afp.com/en/home"><br />
</a>First he found a tin box of coins screwed to the underside of a piece of furniture. From there the trail led to a box for a bottle of whisky and other hiding places until he hit the jackpot: a pile of gold bars each weighing 26.5 lb.<br />
“At that point he called his solicitor to make an inventory,” Fierfort said.<br />
Eventually, a massive pile of 23-pound gold bars stared the new home owner in the face.<br />
An estimated 220 pounds of the precious metal was located all around the home, including 5,000 gold pieces, two 26-pound bars and 37 smaller bars weighing two-pounds each.<br />
The gold, after the examination of experts, was dated back to the 1950s and 1960s when the man’s wealthy relative had bought the precious metal.<br />
All the certificates of authenticity were later found in the deceased’s estate.<br />
The heir, though liable to a 45% percent inheritance tax, has already sold the gold to various international buyers.</p>
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French heir stumbles upon $3.7 million ‘nestegg’ in gold, in deceased family member’s home
