Start Of My '' Coin Display Room '' Safety Room

I was a machinist in the Navy (engineering rate) and construction for 10 years before that, I joined late. I have a dumby $250 safe in a closet, filled with clad change and just junk. Then I have a SAFE deposit box, Then I have multiple places scattered throughout the house and garage... it's an old house, it'd take someone all day to find it. I have my safe not bolted down, and it weighs a good 100 or so pounds, so I figure they'll see that and focus on it, get it to some spot there is no dolley around so it'd take 1 person about 5 minutes to get it out of my house with both hands, and be worn out. I've thought of hooking up a low voltage shock system to it, but I live in a state where the criminals have more rights than I do, so I don't feel like dealing with that. I think it's good enough... they'll think they have a lot of stuff, be worn out, take a lot of time, and be gone. My neighborhood is full of older people, I'm a younger person, like I said with military background, I recently had 2 African americans on bikes, riding by knocking and ringing on doors on new years eve, they knocked on mine I walked outside and saw two of them going to certain doors, and skipping certain doors, I grew up in the ghetto and know exactly what they're doing, I noticed about 6 people out on their porch watching these guys, I walked back inside, grabbed my .410 Judge, tucked it behind my back, put my jacket on and asked what they were doing... they had a sheet of signatures asking for money for some basketball deal (these guys looked like 30 year olds) I said oh ya? You won't mind if I take a picture of that do ya? He said you gonna donate, I said nope, and snapped a picture... where these guys said they were from, is about a 10 minute DRIVE, and they were on bicycles lookin for houses. They hopped on their bike after my encounter and left my block. So my point is, you wanna display your coins, you better be careful who you display it to, and who knows about it, I don't care how secure you think it is, people who are clever with their hands and minds (like me, but a lot smarter than me) exist out there... to me it's about deception. You put a lock somewhere, guess what someboy thinks is behind that lock? Something someone wants locked up....... get what I'm saying? Good luck, I would NEVER display my coins, very few people know that I even own coins.

Slightly off topic but still on the security issue... It's also a good idea to have coins you buy delivered to another address, be it a UPS Store or PO box. The fewer people that know about your valuables, the better.

The room looks great - though you'll likely fill it before you know what happened. lol

One thing you may consider is concealing the entrance. Rather than presenting a locked door, build a panel that looks like just another wall - with a door behind it. The second is make sure the door can be opened from the inside. It would be dangerous to have a room that only locks from the outside...unless you're building a tomb.

I'd also wonder about heat and especially humidity in a small enclosed space.

Strategies for protecting collections vary. Clearly storing in a safety deposit box is best especially for high value coins. Deception and secrecy are also important. It's funny, the car in my garage, a few tvs from the walls or even my hockey equipment are worth nearly as much or worth more than my coins but somehow, I'm more worried about the coins. lol

That said, I store most of my coins outside of my home.

vermontensium - have you cleared using the sacred food storage center with your owners?

Stacker82.

Like you, I live in a nice neighborhood here in So. Cal.
Our city is divided by a major East/West 6 lane freeway.

Criminals know what part of our city is where the money is..the North part.

We have a major neighborhood watch program plus my street has police officers, former LEO myself, who are armed to the teeth :-)

Just trying to look out for ya man, I'm former military with retired plates on my truck sitting right outside the house. I hope you have some hidden cameras around the house, and have a lot of your coins scanned in to computer if you're gonna display them. I carry a gun on me and sleep with 3 loaded right next to me in different areas of my room, that's just my room. I'm not trying to be the negative person, just I've been around bad people as well, I used to hang out with people who would break in to people's house's, shoot up heroin, be "chillin" in a hotel room with a bunch of tweakers, one wasn't really known to the rest of them, and they beat him up and took everything from him, simply because they didn't know him. I've seen the worst in people, my car was stolen by a couple I thought were my friends.... I just would never trust people enough to display my coins, and expect them to not mention it and that info end up in the wrong hands... There are some evil darn people out there. Hope it goes well.

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Only if it is brand new... if it stinks like most hockey equipment, it can be a real theft deterrent!!