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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1359618, member: 22004&quot;]<b>Coin Safes</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The key thing with thefts is opportunity, liklihood of that occuring, the amount of energy and money you are putting in to having security with what you own.&nbsp; I had a safe in a garage apartment on a busy street corner, my brother kept warning that it was a high risk situation.&nbsp; Who knew?&nbsp; I get my mail at a mail provider, hardly anyone knew I had it there.&nbsp; Most safes do not have big bucks valuables in them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never feared theft when I had over $100K in a self storage unit in a facility that had never been broken into.&nbsp;&nbsp; Bank safe deposit boxes are notoriously safe.&nbsp; Does anyone have statistics on the number of break-ins where precious metals figure prominently?&nbsp; There has been no mention of the usefulness of guns for security purposes.&nbsp; Open carry is legal in many states, that right there--a gun on the hip when walking around would tell the world not to fool around with you.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are levels of security and insurance necessary depending on the value of the collection.&nbsp; I would think anything in the millions would require more dedicated measures.&nbsp; I found the movie &quot;The Italian Job&quot; with Donald Sutherland to be quite illuminating on the lengths that criminals will go to gain possession of many millions in gold bullion.&nbsp; Like most of such movies, law enforcement was completely ineffectual; that is one big problem with precious metals--the underground economy will always find ways to buy and sell gold without asking where it came from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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