Every time I read about someone burying their assets like gold, I have flashes of the medieval and Roman era coin caches found periodically.
A small business or tools that can support a trade and thus income are better than gold coins that can be confiscated, stolen or lost.
When those caches were found, the most probable outcome was that the owner was dead or exiled far.
I worked with a Romanian woman about 15 years back. She was a Major in the reserves there and had some crazy stories to tell about the dictator falling there.
Another interesting anecdote she had though, was that hoards of people buried wealth there after the Russians occupied after WWII. The thinking was, after a while this crap will pass and we can get on with it. Well, it didn’t pass for about 50 years, the dictator moved masses off farms/rural areas to cities and a large part of the country went back to wildland. There are a LOT of caches there from the 20th century that no one living is going back to get...
Skills and tools is an A#1 angle though, got those too :-)