Be Careful Who You Tell About Your Stash.

I agree... Sounds like it was a set up

Don't just merely "be careful who you tell about your stash..." Best to keep it 100% to yourself.

There was an incident in Buffalo, NY in 1973 - WAY back before the world turned into the nasty place it is today. Two robbers hit a home where they'd been told there was a valuable coin/stamp collection and that the owners were away on vacation. While they were in the home, the owners came back. They beat the owners with a hammer until they got the location of the valuables and then shot them dead. A neighbor heard the noise, came over to see what the trouble was, and they killed him as well. I knew people involved in this incident.

That was months less than 4 decades ago, and the world is a far harsher, more dangerous place now than it was then. If you live in Mayberry RFD right next door to Aunt Bea, Sheriff Andy and Deputy Barney, allowing your stash to be public info these days is downright dangerous. Anywhere else, it's flat out suicidal.

If you've already let your stash become public info, that's not good. If I were you, I'd do something drastic like get it into a bank safe deposit box or something. What's at risk here is your family's safety. The stash itself (monetary value notwithstanding) is actually of comparatively little value and the best safe in the world is useless when the lives of loved ones hang in the balance.

I always find it curious when people get all outraged, twisted up and bent out of shape about the tragedy of some silly coins being stolen. What gets me twisted is when innocent people get beaten, stabbed or shot and sometimes killed because a robbery went wrong. And -- that does happen...

This is true. The secret is to have a bank that offers free boxes as long as you keep at least $XXX in your account. This way the box is tied directly to your account and if the account is closed, the person closing the account is notified to remove the contents immediately. MY heirs know the locations and contents of my boxes as well as the value and they also know who gets what upon my passing. I have also made it know to those outside of family that 95% of my PM stack is tucked away in these boxes and with 20 years military service under my belt that I would have no problem exercising my 2nd amendment rights guaranteed to me by the Constitution of the United States of America and recently passed laws in my home state.

I understand the diversification of location aspect of this but... doesn't keeping your wealth in 2 countries just subject you to the rules, regs, and idiosyncrasies of BOTH countries rather than just one?

I have read quite a few articles wherein the authors say that putting gold in various countries offers protection against any one country grabbing it during a financial emergency situation. This seems to be off-set by the fact that it could also become very difficult to travel outside and perhaps even inside your own country during a time of economic collapse. You could have a lot of wealth in gold but not be able to get to it.

I've had my SDB for 6 years now. I've had no problems, yet.

OK, that is an advantage but are there other disadvantages due to differing laws in multiple countries?