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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 8401797, member: 76863"]Short of the building getting hit with a bomb thats generally not really any sort of concern for major museums with the vaults they keep things even and even the display cases if something is actually out. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, the majority of stuff they do have will not be on display and they'll just be sitting on it somewhere especially for coins. People really dont go to a museum for coins in general so the major ones that have the best stuff dedicate very little space to them. If they did get some massive mega star coin they would just make it its own display but even then people are going for multi million dollar art, dinosaur bones, space artifacts etc things of that nature </p><p><br /></p><p>Donating your collection to a museum if you have important things is really one of the worst things you can do as far as accessibility for people in the future and this isnt unique to coins either. For example the Smithsonian has massive warehouses full of things in multiple locations that will never get displayed or havent been seen by basically anyone but the staff in decades[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 8401797, member: 76863"]Short of the building getting hit with a bomb thats generally not really any sort of concern for major museums with the vaults they keep things even and even the display cases if something is actually out. That said, the majority of stuff they do have will not be on display and they'll just be sitting on it somewhere especially for coins. People really dont go to a museum for coins in general so the major ones that have the best stuff dedicate very little space to them. If they did get some massive mega star coin they would just make it its own display but even then people are going for multi million dollar art, dinosaur bones, space artifacts etc things of that nature Donating your collection to a museum if you have important things is really one of the worst things you can do as far as accessibility for people in the future and this isnt unique to coins either. For example the Smithsonian has massive warehouses full of things in multiple locations that will never get displayed or havent been seen by basically anyone but the staff in decades[/QUOTE]
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