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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 24699865, member: 105571&quot;]I am so sorry to hear your story.&nbsp; It seems that the perps are often those closest to us.&nbsp; That&#039;s why one of the first rules of keeping valuables (coins, gun, gems, cash, etc.) at home is to not let anyone know that you do.&nbsp; There&#039;s an old saying that goes something like &quot;Only two people can keep a secret, me and myself&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, don&#039;t let others know you collect coins.&nbsp; If you have a safe, disguise it so that casual visitors cannot see it and thus spread the story that &quot;so and so has a safe&quot;.&nbsp; That&#039;s why gun safes are so bad for coins - they are too big, can&#039;t be hidden, and are generally easy to break into.</p><p><br /></p><p>Had a friend who had a nice collection of working hunting rifles kept in a gun safe in the living room - not hidden.&nbsp; He took his two teenage daughters hunting and to the range and one of them could not keep her mouth shut.&nbsp; One evening, some of her &quot;friends&quot; performed a home invasion when the family was at home and held them all at gunpoint while my friend opened the safe and gave it all up.&nbsp;&nbsp; My friend is an ex-marine and nobody&#039;s huckleberry but he would not risk his own life much less his family&#039;s for a few bucks.&nbsp; Fortunately no one was injured and the perps were eventually caught but it could have gone in another direction entirely.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, don&#039;t tell anybody anything!</p><p><br /></p><p>My condolences on your loss and I hope you retrieve your property and the perp gets his just desserts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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