Old Safe What Should I Offer

The lady is working today .. just waiting for her to get home. And hope I can get a look at it today.

I have been looking online and have found two that look like she describes.

This one is the closet to what she says it looks like.
But hers is bigger.
http://pensacola.craigslist.org/atq...7897045.html

Of course I know what someone is asking and what they will take can be different. Of course I will ask her what she wants for it, and work from there. I am thinking $300 might be the most I would want to go. less if it is not
so good .. little more if it is really nice.

I did go to tractor supply co. today. They had Cannon and Winchester gun safes, medium size fire proof for $599.

I like the idea of having a old safe .. but would have to be something that works well.

Yes she has the combo .. she has been selling off her husband coin collection for the past
couple months, he died a few years ago. She says I can look at his gun collection also.

That would be great, $200 for a safe and $150 for a $5 gold piece :D

Now that too sounds promising. Hopefully you know the prices on some old guns. Some can be really expensive.

I had a look at the safe this afternoon. It is a very old safe.
First look ...it seemed pretty big, but not a lot of interior space.
The walls of the safe are 4 or 5 inches thick.

She had 3 binders filled with 2x2 (one I looked at, had Morgans and half dollars)
Then some mint stuff still in shipping boxes, two small drawers with rolled coins.
and a smal stack of coin albums.

I like the look of the safe but it would not be able to hold all my coins.
I know she will not go lower than $350 ...maybe $300. I think she got online
and was seeing what some restored old safes were selling for.

Only had a small window of time today .. did not get to talk about the coins or the guns.

I ended up buying a gun safe from Costco. I twas about $250 0 $300 on sale.
Tall, couple shleves, carpeted. Very nice. Take a look for a gun safe, nothing really heavy
because when you load it with coins it will get heavier.

My first thought about buying a used safe is moving it. I would rather pay a bit more and have somebody bring it into my home for me. For one thing, I simply couldn't move the safe myself and if I enlisted some help and my friends got hurt struggling with it or cracked my door frame or something, well, I would be annoyed at myself for trying to save a couple of bucks.

I have to say that I like the look of the old-timey type of safe but that's about all. The new ones are just safer safes. I couldn't afford a big safe so I just got a small one, and then another. I also got some 'fireproof' lock boxes that I can pick-up all by myself. I am not convinced that they are great protection but I could grab those if I had to leave in a hurry.

Gun Safes are typically about 5 feet tall, 28"-36" wide and 22"-25" inches deep. They typically weigh about 400-600lbs empty.

And to keep any safe from being carried away, you bolt it to the floor or wall.