Collecting Currency When You're Sharing A Dorm Room, How?

Normic, I have said above I'm a 20 hour plane ride away from home and that's why I can't keep it with family.

Thanks for the suggestion frodo, I'll look into getting pallets. And I didn't know cockroaches eat cardboard, I thought only termites.

Aslan, I'll get in touch with someone from the campus and ask them what storage facilities are available on there.

JD, so you stopped collecting when you lived in a dorm?

Wow, I never thought cockroaches are so tough to handle. Great job exterminating them yourself! I've seen several in the past but they're only one cockroach at a time. I can just pick them up and do whatever I like with it.
I'll ask her if she has another place than basement.

Get a camo hat, a copy of American Rifleman, and tell your roomie about your pistol collection.

Years ago, an old friend Rose was having trouble with an abusive partner. We gave Rose a few .45 cartridges to "hide" around the house.

"Hiya Dale. Rose sure got a good deal on that Colt pistol, eh?"

Problem solved.

I'm just saying...

-Duncan

Don't take your collection, unless it's pieces you might be trading while at school. Since it's currency you could always photocopy each note front and back (just so you could have a record of what you already have, and to study in a safe manner, so a copy get's stolen? No big deal, but if you loose your hard earned collection how would you feel? (Coming from somebody that withstood a loos of over $50,000 in rare coins, it is a hard thing to have happen. In my case I almost quit collecting entirely, (actually I did for almost 10 years) but I couldn't stay away. Now my security is much better. Don't let yourself become a victim, especially through something you still can control. My 2¢ worth.

And since we all love our coins and currency (Money), we must all be evil.

If you obsess over money and will do anything to get it, that is the root of all evil. I whole heartily agree. Good luck at school young man.

People often assume I'm a "he" in forums, I don't worry too much about it. Perhaps it's my avatar. I like dragons, MegaMan, and Castlevania and I often put those as my avatar.

I talked to a person from there, she said I'm likely to get a single room if I request it. I'll go and make a request and hope for the best.

If I don't get a room my mum says I can go boarding in her friend's friend place, they got a spare room. I think that's worse.

Not a collection, but my dealer inventory, two double row boxes of coins, one row of Saint Gaudens and $10 Indian gold coins all unc.

Most of the rest were VERY high end Morgans with a lot of DMPLs (think cherry picked dollars that would probably grade MS66 or better today), back before TPG and slabbing (1984) In those days we only used MS60, MS63 and MS65 grades. And a few high grade type unc. coins

Nope the police never found them. Much of the gold was on consignment from other dealers to me, they were understanding and let me pay them back over time. It took almost 2.5 years to do that, and I just about gave up the whole coin business because of it. I wasn't targeted, just a chance home burglary, when I had just taken the coins out of the bank's safety deposit boxes for an upcoming coin show that weekend. The idiots had no idea what they had I'm sure, nor that there would be coins in the house they were burglaring. They left a $500.00 face bag of 90% silver coins, and several 100oz bars of silver and a large stack of 10oz bars behind - yet took the vacuum cleaner, an old electric kitchen aid mixer, a cheap and old color 19" television, among some of the items. I put the word out to all the pawn shops, coin dealers, etc, but never heard a thing. losing $50K+ is a tough hole to crawl out of as a young up and coming dealer. I never really did bounce back to the level I built myself up to again.