French man discovers gold coins and bars worth €3.5m in inherited house
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French man discovers gold coins and bars worth €3.5m in inherited house
Local auctioneer said gold weighing 100kg (220lb) in total was ‘extremely well hidden’ around house in Normandy under furniture and in the bathroom
The French man, whose name was not released, found gold coins and bars worth millions stashed in a large house he inherited from a dead relative.
A Frenchman who inherited a house from a dead relative has discovered a glittering treasure trove of gold coins and bars worth millions.
Squirrelled away in hiding places throughout the house in Normandy, he came across thousands of gold coins and bars weighing 100kg (220lb) in total.
“There were 5,000 gold pieces, two bars of 12 kilos and 37 ingots of 1 kilo,” Nicolas Fierfort, a local auctioneer, told AFP, confirming a report in the local La Depeche newspaper.
Fierfort, who had visited the house to value furniture offered for sale by the new owner, said the loot, which was worth €3.5m ($3.7m), was “extremely well hidden”.
“It was under the furniture, under piles of linen, in the bathroom ... everywhere,” he said, admitting that he himself had overlooked the gold on his visit.
It was only when the new owner – whose identity and relationship with the previous owner were withheld – began moving the furniture that he stumbled on the stash.
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 12 kilos.
“At that point he called his solicitor to make an inventory,” Fierfort said.
The gold, it turned out, was bought in the 1950s and 1960s.
All the certificates of authenticity were later found in the deceased’s estate.
The gold has already been sold to various buyers in France and other countries.
But the real winner could be the taxman, La Depeche said.
Apart from being liable for a 45-percent inheritance tax, the finder will also have to pay three years in back taxes on it if the deceased failed to declare his treasures.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/22/france-man-discovers-gold-coins-bars-house
Well, whatever is left will be a bonus as I presume he didn't know about it when he inherited the house.
The French man, whose name was not released, found gold coins and bars worth millions stashed in a large house he inherited from a dead relative.
A Frenchman who inherited a house from a dead relative has discovered a glittering treasure trove of gold coins and bars worth millions.
Squirrelled away in hiding places throughout the house in Normandy, he came across thousands of gold coins and bars weighing 100kg (220lb) in total.
“There were 5,000 gold pieces, two bars of 12 kilos and 37 ingots of 1 kilo,” Nicolas Fierfort, a local auctioneer, told AFP, confirming a report in the local La Depeche newspaper.
Fierfort, who had visited the house to value furniture offered for sale by the new owner, said the loot, which was worth €3.5m ($3.7m), was “extremely well hidden”.
“It was under the furniture, under piles of linen, in the bathroom ... everywhere,” he said, admitting that he himself had overlooked the gold on his visit.
It was only when the new owner – whose identity and relationship with the previous owner were withheld – began moving the furniture that he stumbled on the stash.
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 12 kilos.
“At that point he called his solicitor to make an inventory,” Fierfort said.
The gold, it turned out, was bought in the 1950s and 1960s.
All the certificates of authenticity were later found in the deceased’s estate.
The gold has already been sold to various buyers in France and other countries.
But the real winner could be the taxman, La Depeche said.
Apart from being liable for a 45-percent inheritance tax, the finder will also have to pay three years in back taxes on it if the deceased failed to declare his treasures.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/22/france-man-discovers-gold-coins-bars-house
Well, whatever is left will be a bonus as I presume he didn't know about it when he inherited the house.
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Should have kept his mouth shut and put them on the market bit at a time.
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