Top Brand Safes? Storing My Coins/Valuables

I have considered that as an issue. And have been checking around to see if I were to need to move a safe in the 600+lbs range, how much it would cost me, especially if i found one off craigslist.

 

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I appreciate the tip on vault doors, I would have never looked into that. I plan on doing quite a bit of research before I make a purchase on a safe if that is the route I go.

 

Right - I have dealt in moving heavy wood working machinery and usually with anything under a Thousand pounds it used to be a dollar a pound plus mileage. Which nowadays I have no idea. And of cours you can't keep a heavy safe in your upper house without reinforcing the floor from the basement. And if you want it in the basement then you have to worry about how to get it down the stairs to the basement slab!

 

I'm sorry - it used to be like 1/2 a dollar per the pound of the move!! Plus the mileage.

 

If you have a smaller collection instead of alot of thousands of dollars of rare and gold coins, could you go with a few smaller safes?? I keep my collections in these smaller Sentry safes - types of coins per safe plus if you want they can be bolted to your wood or concrete floors.
http://www.sentrysafe.com/

 

I realize this is about a home safe, but have you checked out a safe deposit box, too?

 

I had several moved when I last moved (from FL to KY). The total cost to move the entire house was far less than 50¢ per pound of the safes. I would venture to say that anything weighing less than 1K LBS per safe would fall under normal rates for a mover. Around here that would mean about 100/hr with a minimum of 3 hours. And perhaps a mileage charge.

 

I already have one. But the down fall is its a hassle if I want to get at it. I would like to view a few of my coins more often. Plus I have documents/old family pictures/home videos that wouldn't hurt to be in a fire safe.

 

Yeah - in eastern Ohio it's 125$ / hour if it's furniture - minimum 3 hrs. So you are still looking at least 300$ - plus furniture movers don't have the means to move a 600# PLUS safe let alone position it in a residence. Id'e be scared to have a moving company try to haul a heavy safe into my house and place it. I had a fuel oil tank taken out of my basement from a so called "mover" and they destroyed my wood work taking it out of the basement!!

 

Up until November, I had been storing my collection (life savings!) in my closet. I know. And then I picked up a used Mosler safe off of CL. Cost me $500 and they're $4-5k brand new. This is the route I went and couldn't be happier. No reason to get something small enough that someone could steal it.

It's identical to this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mosler-Combination-Dial-Safe-Vault-Model-1-Serial-26953-5-/181390773152

 

I've got a couple an antique smaller one and a huge Victorian era monster about takes a crane to move. The small one still 300+ pounds plus there nice to look at plus my property when I'm home protected by sig sauer Winchester smith & Wesson bushmaster and others

 

I actually ran across one on craiglist, a smaller one, I liked to old school look and the price was very reasonable. I still have to do some research on this question and I am not sure I will be able to easily find it on the internet. but anyway, with a smaller older safe is it possible to anchor it somehow? I only ask cuz most of the newer safes I am looking at they already have pre drilled anchor holes. Just curious how'd you'd anchor an older model safe

 

The solution to me seems a bit obvious. Opt for a smaller safe (not too small) and use that in combination with a safe deposit box.

This is actually my method, and I even found my safe in an abanded house my father bought. Like a 20s or 30s model.

At any rate, you get protection off site, and can still view a rotation of coins that you choose.

I put my duplicates and albums in the SD and keep my sets i am working on at the house.

Its like this, if you collect slabs and are into building a set of Washington Quarters, you could keep the bulk (over 100) at the SD, and a 'Box of 20' in your safe, or however you want to break it up.

 

Thats actually a really good question. My older model is on wheels too and doesnt have a bolt down option. Wonder how you could modify that

 

Yeah the one I seen is on wheels and didn't have a weight listed. but I'd guess in the 200 to maybe 300 lb range tops. If I find anything in my research I'll post it and let you know.

 

You can get any machine shop etc to drill a couple holes in it and bolt it My smaller one notanchored but well hidden the larger weighs over a ton

 

I will see if I can dig a photo up of mine that I posted on site. Mine definitely weighs a bit more than that. I am 6'5" 240lb (ex 330lb), and from everything I have lifted, I took just the door off to move it around easier and that thing was every bit of 125-150 lbs by itself.

Id say mine is in the 350-500 pound weight class

 

Through the back or the bottom?

Mine has wheels, so the bolts would be exposed and able to be cut with a sawsall from underneath without much hassle (assuming a thief thought that far ahead anyway). I dont know how drilling through the back would work.

 

Moved my small one upstairs on a heavy furniture/appliance dolly with me pulling and someone pushing. Not light I like those big thick 1/2"+ steel or cast iron walls

 

I'd go thru the back depends what your bolting to. A lag bolt into a big beam or timber not going anywhere my house 230 year old post and beam. Neither safe has wheels either