Keeping Books On Coins In The House

They are right by my desk as I am always using them but I do put them up if I know someone I don't trust or don't know is comin over.

Doesn't matter now since I have so much gun paraphernalia around I don't think they'd wanna mess with me anyways

Without going into detail, many years ago I used to be in a line of work in which I interacted on a regular basis with the sort of people that thought it was ok to break into peoples houses. Those type of people actually prefer to break into homes where guns are. They don't break in when anyone is home anyway, & guns are portable & readily convertible to cash. I'd hide the gun paraphernalia AND the coin books.

This is a great question. I never really thought about this. Thank you!

I keep mine out too, even have coins laying around. (shame shame)

Don't count on it. The satellite TV guy stole one of my kids games last year after admiring my AK47 along with the numerous other firearms in the gun cabinet with it.

Like so many other things this is primarily something based on where you live. Where I live everything is bolted, locked, covered, etc. I used to have gun, knife, coin, etc books in a bookcase by the front door. I realized what a mistake that was when almost everyone that came over made some type of comment about them. Such as where do you keep the guns? Or how many coins do you have? Or Knives? What kind? Where are they? Then I remembered how we have had two robberies on this block alone and the main thing stolen was COINS. Kind of made me wonder just how did the crooks know about the coins. That is what they were looking for and found.
If you live in a large city area you may want to watch your mail box also. If you have coin magazines delivered and they stick out of the box, wonder how many people see those?
Last year when I ordered coins from the Mint they were delivered by FEDX. I was at the front door when the FED-X driver, a lady, drove up, got out, walked up to my front door and said "Here are the coins you ordered". If she knows, the world probably does.

Yep

But I never have anything out that is of value...Ever. I am so paranoid of my stuff now that if I ever were broken into again they wouldn't find anything that can't be replaced.

This is a very touchy subject. All of the time and energy placed into a very desired product and everyone here has a coin or two to say the least.I have lately been giving this exact topic a lot of thought and lets face it if someone wants something you have, and they want it bad, they will do all they can to "get"it.

So I have been carefully photographing both sides of every coin, every album, every binder and coins in them, all the mint sets and proofs, commemoratives,etc.This I was told would help, if god forbid someone got the wrong idea and the worst happened.

I believe the pictures would help with the insurance company and would assure me a better shot at getting a fair replacement value on the "collection".I believe I read an article on this site from a person who did replacement jewelery work for insurance companies, in which he states that,PICTURES, PICTURES, and did I mention PICTURES

would help sooo much if the time came to make a claim, he went on to say that the insurance company could not argue with such "proof" and would not be able to take the time and debate the entire picture evidence and would have no other choice, but to give a "fair replacement value" on the loss,

also receipts and documentation would be of great assistance too.I have like most of the forum my age, been collecting since 1963 and have "a few coins', this said, I do not know what else to do to cover myself without spending another small fortune to "securely tuck away the collection", I just am always looking and learning about coins and want the coins always not to far away, believe me "secure" at any given time, I am sorry I took up this much time, be well, Mike