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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 2541521, member: 24091&quot;]Funny you should mention the decoy...,,&nbsp; For most collectors their biggest exposure is their lack of anonymity about being a collector.&nbsp; Not that it was ever intentional, but anything with their home address on it that is coin related serves as a calling card for thieves.&nbsp; Mailing lists of coin related organizations and publications are known to have been stolen in years past, serving as a travel guide for thieves out to target collector&#039;s homes.&nbsp; Using a post office box for hobby related correspondence is probably the single most important thing a collector can do to protect himself from being specifically targeted.</p><p><br /></p><p>That all said, anything that can fool a thief into stealing the junk while protecting the good stuff is worth doing.&nbsp; I have an entire coin collection that is a decoy proudly stored on a bookshelf in the den.&nbsp; It&#039;s all in 2x2 holders in vinyl pages mounted in 3-ring binders.&nbsp; Very heavy in gem mint state Italian issues from the 1950s....LoL....&nbsp; (NO, none of the good dates either!).&nbsp; The chances of a thief specializing in world coins breaking in who actually knows the material is junk is pretty slim.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s not to say that I store my collection at home, because I don&#039;t.&nbsp; Like many others mine is in a safe deposit box, and if my bank ever eliminated that section it would be the end of my relationship with them.&nbsp; The whole idea of a decoy for me, is the idea that if a burglar gets in, he can do a tremendous amount of damage ransacking the house if he doesn&#039;t find something right away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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