"Wheelbarrows full of gold coins"

Found in an elderly man's house after his death.

When 69-year-old Walter Samasko Jr died in May he left behind just $200 in the bank and no friends or family to lay claim to the meager inheritance. He hadn't worked since 1968 and was living off stock accounts of $140,000 and $25,000.

But the real treasure was found at his Nevada home, along with his decaying body, one month later after neighbours complained of a foul smell. There officials discovered box upon box of gold coins and bars stowed away in Samasko's garage, valued at a staggering $7million or more...

The gold, including coins from Mexico, England, Austria and South Africa dating to 1872, was hauled from the garage using a wheelbarrow and truck, then deposited for safekeeping.

Carson City Clerk Recorder Alan Glover told MailOnline that only coins were found in Mr Samasko’s house. ‘There were no bars at all. There were all sorts of coins, though – Mexican, British sovereigns, Austrian ducats, (South African) krugerrands, most of it was U.S. $20 gold pieces.’The British sovereign coins, he said, had ‘both early and later Queen Victoria – from 1840s and the 1890s.’..

Mr Glover told MailOnline that the $7million appraisal was ‘just on what we think the gold weight of it,’ meaning that the actual value of the coinage could very well be worth much more...

Other things found in the 'anti-government' pensioner's home included a stash of conspiracy theory books and several guns, Mr Glover said...