Coins and security

I have lived more than 70 years in the US and that in a highly urbanized region and for the last 40 years less than ten miles form what is considered to be among the five most dangerous cities in America. I have never seen a stabbing, armed robbery or homicide. The only time my person was involved in a crime was in Rome, Italy (looking to purchase Ancient coins).

 

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Personally, I wouldn't store my collection at home even with a home safe but that is just me. I don't believe that my neighborhood is at any particular risk of a break in but just don't consider it prudent. As in the UK, most homes are not designed to keep someone out who has any determination to break in.

 

A couple weeks ago ago I was within line-of-sight of a gun murder and a couple hundred feet away, the moment it happened; only the fact that the victim was pointed a different direction from the shooter kept rounds from coming my way. In the last 6 months, within the areas I walk every day, there have been:

3 murders
8 rapes
47 robberies
52 aggravated assaults

Those numbers double if you include "everything within a half mile of me" but I do_not_go in the direction of North Philadelphia from where I live.

If you live in a city in America, you get used to crime. It's a very different thing even if you're only a few miles away.

 

I think that this sums up what I was asking. It seems sad to me that you have a hobby that is more difficult to enjoy if it lives someplace else.

Certainly I was not suggesting that any particular country was any safer than any other. It is all about being in the wrong place wherever that may be.

 

Out of sight is out of mind.....do not leave coin cases / boxes visible in car. If you have to have boxes of stuff in car while coins in trunk (trunk full) cover the boxes with a dark blue sheet. Traveling light is best. Never leave your coins unattended.

if traveling to a show I drive nonstop to destination (hotel or show) except to go thru drive thru. Always be sure your not being followed too. The last day of the show (usually real slow) I have a good lunch before closing time so not famished once leave.....

 

Where there are people there are bad people!

I've been thinking more and more about the security of my collection lately. Maybe my geriatric German Shepherd might deter a would-be burglar I shouldn't count on it. Putting my collection in a safe deposit box might be a great way to go, I feel like I would be missing out on the point of collecting - enjoying my collection.

I actually kind of want a coin cabinet. It would be my most favorite piece of furniture!

Also, I move every couple of years and don't own a home. Bolting a safe to the floor may be out of the question. I need to figure something out. Random red coin boxes aren't going to work forever!

 

This is why suburbs spring up. People who are able to leave, leave.
The rest are stuck as the inner city implodes on itself being reduced to a crime riddled, over-populated, unnatural, undesirable situation for human beings to have to adapt to. Maybe they just havent gotten the right mayor for the jobs though. Always just need one more election to solve the problem.

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I've been to Philly btw. I walked the streets. Luckily not in the bad parts though. At least didn't think I did. Where I was seemed decent. Not any worse than parts of Rockford.

I guess I have to take that back. I just remember now hearing on the news about a city bus that got riddled with bullets overnight in the short time I was there. . No joke.

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The robbery stats came from this site, which uses UN data from 2010:

http://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/robery/

The assault info is a little less reliable; taken from a chart comparing assault (or as they called it, "contact crime") rates in 17 industrialized countries. Source identified as "Dutch Ministry of Justice" and dated 2001. Can't find a link and don't want to take the time to upload the graphic.

However, in searching for a link, I came across another listing that ranks countries by ALL crime per capita. US is #22, and many of the countries ranking higher are the same as those in my previous post regarding assault:

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Total-crimes-per-1000

I doubt the US would fare as well in homocide rates, but that particular type of crime didn't seem as germaine to the OP's concerns.

 

I know, I have been watching "Happy Valley" and am afraid to visit Britain : - )

 

If you get to the LA area (I'm not there, but close) give me a buzz and I'll buy you a cuppa coffee...or tea.

 

If someone burgles my house, they will have to spend some time to find all the coins I have at numerous locations (not for security...I'm just sloppy) and then suffer the mental trauma of deciding if they REALLY want to steal a 1979 5 Deutschmark or a 1963 50 Xu Vietnamese coin (just two that happen to be next to my computer).

 

Gawd...my coin room is full of military trade tokens. The thief will face the disappointment when they go to sell...

 

Hey it's nasty up North! Actually I am surprised that you could understand their accents and enjoy a high speed car chase at like 30mph. We enjoyed Happy Valley though. Quality TV.

I just had a language problem in a restaurant. How can someone not understand the spoken word 'tomato' even if it is in a British accent?

 

I'll take you up on that. Back around Thanksgiving probably for around a month between Corona/Riverside and Thousand Oaks.

 

We need to get up to the West Midland coins show when you are free.

 

I'd love to have one too, but I'd only put my ancients in it. I'd be a little afraid of what it would do to some of my other coins.

Does it look like this, by any chance?

 

Good lord, @SuperDave, my wife would (and perhaps I would too) s*** nickels if I lived near that kind of crime. Up north here, on the border of ND & MN, crime is increasing, but there is no place in this (tiny) metro area of 200,000+ where ANYTHING like that amount of crime takes place on a regular or even very occasional basis. As we of Norwegian ancestry say, "uff da."

Steve