You're lucky you were all on the same page.
My old man had a small stack. As a little kid (age 9 when he started buying) I was unimpressed. He had his $20 gold pieces, he was so proud...I didn't get it.
IIRC, he had about 20 of them. I completely lost track of them; he died before I started stacking.
My mother took his estate, communal-property laws. I never thought to ask her, but in retrospect, she probably sold them fast. It was what she did with his guns...I don't know if she sold them or just made a show of giving them to the police for destruction. Only his Mauser escaped that, and only because it was outside his gun cabinet.
Once my mother died, the executor was in the safe before I could get to it. So I don't know if the gold was there or not. I did offer to BUY the gold out of the estate - it was about $500/oz back then, we didn't even get to prices. I got no answer - and that was my own brother, who also tried throwing me out of the house (I had moved in to help with end-of-life issues). It was ugly and in the end, also, I got the raw end of the turd.
That's another story; but it's what can happen when you're not of one mind. Now, I expect, probably, my stacks will either be stolen by Probate or sold at pennies on the dollar...but I can't help that, either.
