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I hope you had a professional do it.
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As far as long term storage goes, rapid temperature swings causes condensation.
Colder coins exposed to warm humid air will get wet.
So seal your storage vessel up, maybe toss in a dessicant. This will isolate the internal humidity from the external environment.
The attic would be alright if you kept the coins on the "warm"(Inside) side, as the temperature will be fairly stable.
Just be sure to do a nice job with the insulation on the top, cold side.
The temperature in the ground is pretty stable once you get down a few feet. 4 feet gets you safely below the frost-line were I live. Temperature fluctuations are minor underground.
One thing to watch for when burying containers is, their mysterious ability to pop out of the ground like zombies.
Bulky and air filled vessels are no-good. They will float up out of the soil if it gets wet.
If your filled container floats in the lake, it's not safe underground. It needs to sink or be neutrally buoyant.
I have witnessed this on an a job I was working at once. The plumbers buried a new septic system, one of those plastic ecoflo deals. Anyhow it was fine until it rained. It went from being completely buried, to sticking up 4' out of the ground in 12 hours lol. I would imagine they now fill them with water after burying.
Edited by Sixthcents
07/27/2012 07:49 am
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Pillar of the Community
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I often thought about this too...
If you have children to hand your collection down to then thats one thing, but if you don't procreate its a nice idea to bury a hoard... it could sit there for hundreds of years before it gets discovered.
Thats why I like the idea more than putting it in the attic or loft, it wont remain undiscovered for long and worse still maybe the building will get knocked down or it will be destroyed somehow.
Just think if mankind doesn't destroy itself someone could dig it up in a few thouand years time :)
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You raise a very good point, most of all ancient treasures and artifacts are found in the ground, or inside some kind of man made hollow like the Dead Sea Scrolls were stashed in. etc.
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you can burry it in my hole I'm digging in the woods, I'm looking for fluber like you all suggested
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I sure hope that Alzheimer's pill they're working on plays out for everybody secretly burying or hiding things. Whether it's a stash of PMs, miscellaneous coins, a copy of the Declaration of Independence behind a cheap oil painting, etc., seems like the word often preceding the find is "forgotten." Quick, where's the valet key to your car? :)
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One thing to watch for when burying containers is, their mysterious ability to pop out of the ground like zombies.
Bulky and air filled vessels are no-good. They will float up out of the soil if it gets wet. A few pounds of PMs in those containers should handle this problem nicely.  I'm thinking 2" PVC tubes with glued on end caps and coins or rounds in round plastic tubes inside the PVC. A bag of desiccant inside the PVC tube seems a good idea. |
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Modern day bury treasures for other to find it.
This sound more like a game show or one of those reality show.
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Yes, it does, Mac. Although burying your stash could make it pretty secure, I would always be worried about not being able to find it again... especially as the number of buried treasures increases. Maybe that's not a big problem but it seems to have the potential to become a big problem.
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This is an interesting topic, I would also worry about forgetting, especially if there is a head injury or a form of dementia strikes the sole person who knows where it is. Maybe if you also stash a map somewhere lol.  Also I tend to worry more about house fires than the average person for some reason. My Mom's house burned down when she was a kid, so all my life it was drilled into me about fire potential (makes the pvc tube in the attic look out of the question for me). |
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My Mom's house burned down when she was a kid, so all my life it was drilled into me about fire potential (makes the pvc tube in the attic look out of the question for me). Yeah, I can see how that would affect a person for a long time afterwards but a house fire is a pretty long odds situation. With even a little caution applied to what you do and how you do it, the odds against having a house fire has got to be thousands to 1 against... maybe more. My question would be, "What else do you have in your house that you are worried about losing to fire?". Personally, I am not all that worried about a house fire. I have eliminated most sources for causing a fire, keep the batteries good in the smoke detectors, and have fire extinguishers ready to go. When we re-roofed our house in 2009, we specified a fiber-glass / composite shingle that is quite resistant to fire. Anything can happen, of course, but I tend to put most of my worrying on the things that have the highest chance of actually happening. |
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"What else do you have in your house that you are worried about losing to fire?". Lots of other stuff, but insurance will cover most of it. I'd guess there probably is a limit to PM coverage with most insurance policies, if they cover it at all. I remember ours having a limit on the jewelry of around 10K. Not sure if PM fit in there or not. Yeah the chances of fire might be slim but if we are talking a big stack I know I'd sleep better with some fire protection for it. Another risk we face in my neck of the woods is F5 tornadoes that can wipe your slab clean. Another reason to skip the attic stash for me, or table leg or in the wall...etc... But it sure would be hard for a crook to find there. If that is your main worry. Edited by GoThunder
07/29/2012 6:40 pm
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Wow, that is a pricey book new! Edited by GoThunder
07/29/2012 6:17 pm
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