Tips For Storing In Safe

I get my desiccant packs from a local gun shop. I find they have the best selection.

Prior to spending money on a safe consider some things. If your putting this safe in a basement and live in an area of humidity, that is the place where every time you open the safe, moisture pours in. Those get packs are also going to become expensive and don't really do as much as people think. And if the safe is left open a lot, complete waste of money for anything to put in there. As a rule most people I know with safes have them open a lot and only close them when no one is to be home.
In case of a fire remember that the safe is possibly FLAME proof but not heat resistant. Many people have found out the hard way that when a safe is opened after a fire they find a really nice pile of plastic all over their coins. Note the plastic, cardboard, wood, also put into the safe. These usually melt all over everything.
I suggest you consider a safe deposit box in a bank first. Not as conveinient, but more practical.

I heard that a jar of coal will keep moisture out. Is this true?. I just dont think that would be the cleanest way of doing it.

Safe Deposit Box is the best but my coins would never fit in one.

I bought a gun safe real big one and bolted it to the concrete floor.

I live in a low moisture area but I do keep some old newspaper in the safe to absorb moisture and change that about twice a year but notice nothing on any of my coins so far.

I would need a SDB about six feet high and three feet deep and four feet wide like my gun safe and it is full.

So some may not be able to use a SDB as they are not big enough.

only thing I worry about a SDB is the Government
is this a valid worry?

I've heard those rediculous things about the government confiscating items in SDB's. Here is something to thinks about. Just in my area I have SDB's in 5 different banks. One of those banks has a basement area so full of those there must be thousands of them there alone. In those 5 banks there surely must be many, many thousands of such boxes. Now imagine how many banks, savings and loans, credit unions, etc, also have those boxes and in every town, village, city in every state. So now we have virtually millions and millions of those boxes.
Just how many people do you think work for the government that would ever have nothing to do except examine and/or confiscate your coins in those boxes.
Of course if our government hired all of Mexico, which is mostly here now, they could have enough people to take on that taske.
If you do ever decide on purchasing a safe for your home, make sure it is delivered in a plain box, or a box stating refridgerator or something like that. Nothing like a bunch of nosey neighbors spreading the stories of all the millions you have in a safe at home.

Wasn't near Hillsboro now was it? Pana, Scram City, Talor Springs? Lots of coal mines in the past in that area. Lots of Sulfur rich coal there. Lots of Beer drinking too. As a side note, me too.