Help me not get robbed (literally)

Well, in my opinion, be careful talking about this on an online forum. Someone could trace your IP and be able to get into your house. Instead, I would use a payphone (I'm NOT Joking) and call security and spy shops or Coin dealers asking them what thsy suggest. Just my opinion.

 

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You could always get a "throw-away" phone at Walmart for $20 bucks or so and register it under an alias.

 

KoinJester, I admire your suggestion.

 

You could always pay protection insurance!

 

And on pay phones, they have been taken out at an alarming pace, I saw this trend especially in the NY metropolitan area building about 10 years ago. Of course the telecoms say it is because the pay phones are no longer "profitable". The intelligence agencies keep pay phones under surveillance far more than the others because they say they are used for "suspicious" activity. Pay phones are invaluable in many cases.

 

i would consider putting them in one place instead of a bunch in all different places so in case of an emergency you can grab them. ( emergency as in fire or some sort of biohazard where you need to get away fast and you might not have your debit card).
i would suggest getting a painting, then glue on the back some makeshift shelving, put plexiglass over that, then you have a dislplay/coin carrier, i dont know how this would work, maybe ill try it some day.

 

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I have never been robbed. Thanks to this forum I moved anything big like bullion to a safe deposit box. I used to handle a lot of money at the card tables and I would keep a decoy wallet with 60-100 dollars. Never had to use it.

 

Maybe it's all part of Their shadowy conspiracy to deprive us of anonymous communications. Personally, though, I think it's just that everybody started using cell phones instead.

Besides, even if They hadn't taken away all the pay phones, don't you imagine They would have put security cameras on all of them by now?

 

Surveillance cameras - lots of them. Cover the driveway and street to capture license plates, cover the locations of your coins and other valuables from multiple angles. Make sure you have battery backup to power the cameras, and use high definition cameras transmitting to an off-site monitoring station.

If the crooks work too fast for the monitoring service to get the heat to your location this method may not prevent the theft (and it is theft, not robbery, if you aren't there to be threatened), but it will greatly assist in IDing and catching the thieves, thereby preventing them from victimizing me.

 

A suspicious person might look at the original post and think it may be a troll by a burglar looking for new ideas of where to look in the next house he burgles.
Just sayin...

 

Hello Johnny Ringo,
There was a guy at CT years ago that would (just for sport) use his computer genius to track down your home address & then send you a copy of your post along with your address. The moral of the story is you should never discuss where you have coins stored at your home on an open forum.

IMHO the best security is not letting anyone know that you have something to steal. If your home is going to be difficult & they don't know that there is a treasure inside, then they will burglarize someplace else.

BTW, if you use the litter-box hiding place, don't let your cat urinate on your best coins

 

Yeah, but there are literally hundreds of ideas. You could make a fake drain cleanout, put it in a box of oatmeal, under kitchen cabinets with a false front, taped underneath a lower drawer so as to not be seen, etc ad nauseum. I am sure burglars know many of these possible locations, but no way to check them all without going through a house for a few days. Most burglars are smash and grab kind of burglars.

 

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In Massachusetts I witnessed the aftermath of a professional burglar's "smash & grab". The burglar(s) literally threw all the drawers, cabinets, & other furniture across the room smashing it all on the walls & floors. They were looking for secret compartments & stashes of valuables that might have been taped or otherwise attached. These (pros) destroyed much more than they took. There were holes & dents in the walls of almost every room. These bad guys stole the beef out of the basement freezer & then tipped-over the freezer.

 

get a dog

 

Seal in zip lock bags then insert into water proof
plastic boxes and put in back of toilet. USED
toilet works best if you know what I mean!!!

 

Let's answer this from the other direction: where NOT to hide money / valuables (from http://www.dinarrecaps.com/1/post/2...-with-a-burglar-posted-by-jeffrey-strain.html):

1) Toilets
2) Cereal Boxes
3) Refrigerator and Freezer
4) Medicine Cabinet
5) Bed

Actually, I'm hiding my copy coins in the toilet and under the mattress: with luck, if someone breaks in, they will check there first, grab the fakes, and leave without trashing the house.

 

I leave all my coins out in the open on my desk, where I can actually enjoy them (I've posted the picture on a few other threads). I'm in the process of making a sign to place on top of them:

"Chinese Replicas - No Intrinsic Value"

Uh oh... now I've done it... given my secret away to all the "would be" burglars.

 

maybe self slab some coins and put them in those spots, like just gold painted coins

 

Yeah, I was thinking of sprinkling a few SGS slabs over the desk... no respectable burglar would touch those.

 

maybe a few NTC or some MCCS ? how about MMSS " Mark M's Slabbing Specialists" lol