Safety First...

I feel the same as you Morgan.......
But the possible reality of putting myself or other loved ones at risk and losing my coins was the reason I keep 90% of my collection in 3 large safety deposit boxes down at the bank.
In the bank they are "flood water free", "fireproof" (your safe is fire resistant for what 25 minutes ?), "thief proof", dry/humidity free area, and other reasons too......yeah it's inconvenient, but that outweighs the "safe keeping" IMHO......

It's nice that we all believe we'd turn into Sylvester Stallone or Arnold, or Bruce Willis, or Batman and be able to open the safe in front of an intruder who is watching you very carefully with a gun to your childs head and grab your loaded gun from inside the safe, and get some kill shots into his body (and not getting your wife or child shot by you on accident or the intruder shooting them).......
This seems like a brilliant plan !........NOT ! ...

Don't they have some bigger boxes? yea, he will out grow them all eventually, but until then, just upgrade!


I understand what everyone is saying, and if I had any "WOW!" coins, I would probably keep them/some of them in the bank, but I just can't collect something if I only get to enjoy it during bankers hours. And I have coins out and the gloves on almost every night, sorting, stapling, adding to an album, doing something. Maybe someday when if I an organised enough I will find some that I don't need around, and I will put them in a SDB, but until then I need them around, they give me something to do.

Exactly. If somebody ever gets to the point of directly threatening your family, all you want to do is defuse that situation. Of course, if they came there not for your coins, but to hurt your family, I think that's another matter that calls for a quick decision--heroics if necessary. Personally I might not hesitate to use anything to solve that situation.

A safe is a good idea.

An insurance rider would nicely compliment the safe.

The talk of gun-play is just plain silly.

Bank vault doors are cheap if you bide your time. Make your own vault. Better yet, buy a bank building.

IIRC, OZ paid people to turn in guns a few years back. Predictably, the crooks kept theirs, and crime rates skyrocketed.

Speaking of big safes, one of my customers in the 60s had an old Wells Fargo safe in his garage, which was built around it. It was about 7' tall and 5' on a side, and had about a cubic foot of storage. It's prolly still there, since you'd have to dismantle the grudge to get it out.

Actually, crime rates fell, and have continued to do so every year since. Crime stats released this week show burglaries are down over 40% in the last 5 years.

Couple that with our TOTAL homicide rate of less than 400 people per year for the whole country, with firearms accounting for only 16% of that number and still falling, compared to 44% in 1968 before gun control began, and I would say it was a wise decision.

Before entering college, I worked in a hunting store where we sold guns for hunting as well as handguns. After that experience, I have my doubts whether a handgun makes the average household any safer from intruders. Here, a police officer is trained to draw his weapon only when the situation calls for it--and to ultimately prevent further harm. There are probably notable exceptions to the average handgun owner, but I doubt many have any training to make proper judgment calls. Unlike driving a car, no training or education is required. So after waiting 10 days (in CA), the average buyer takes home their gun and may get some practice, but ultimately hopes that simply pointing a gun at an intruder will make their family safe. I have my doubts it works that way.