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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 106403, member: 4552"]I agree. Gun case. Although they are not 100% fire proof, remeber not many things really are 100% fire proof. If you use a gun case, they are as already noted large, heavy, able to be bolted to the wall, sufficiently water and fire proof for coins. Remember with air tight safes the moisture and contaminates are just as well locked in as locked out. Silica gels reduce the moisture but do nothing for contaminates. With the gun case you can put large amounts of coins, guns, knives and even a relative you don't like. One thing about a fire is if it is a large fire, the metal of a safe gets red hot. The inside becomes like a funace melting just about any coinage. Happened to someone I know. Fire never got inside the safe but everything in the safe was one big blob. Also, the expanding gases inside eventually blew open the thing anyway. As noted, get a gun cabinet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 106403, member: 4552"]I agree. Gun case. Although they are not 100% fire proof, remeber not many things really are 100% fire proof. If you use a gun case, they are as already noted large, heavy, able to be bolted to the wall, sufficiently water and fire proof for coins. Remember with air tight safes the moisture and contaminates are just as well locked in as locked out. Silica gels reduce the moisture but do nothing for contaminates. With the gun case you can put large amounts of coins, guns, knives and even a relative you don't like. One thing about a fire is if it is a large fire, the metal of a safe gets red hot. The inside becomes like a funace melting just about any coinage. Happened to someone I know. Fire never got inside the safe but everything in the safe was one big blob. Also, the expanding gases inside eventually blew open the thing anyway. As noted, get a gun cabinet.[/QUOTE]
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