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<p>[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1419161, member: 37498"]IMHO - More important than the quality of the safe, is how it's installed. Too many people buy a $1,000 safe and just plop it in a room or their closet. For it to be an effective deterrent, it needs to be bolted in place so burglars can't just lay it on its back and have at it with spud bars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another good thing is to get to know your neighbors. My neighbors are better than any burglar alarm, because a burglar alarm won't call the cops when someone is peeking in the windows when we're not home.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet another thing to consider when buying a safe, is how many other things will you store inside it? Sure, you only have $X worth of coins today, but if you had a good fireproof safe, wouldn't you also throw other things inside it that are valuable to you? Birth certificates, passports, vehicle titles, DD214's, guns, jewelry, watches, cash, computer backups, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guns are worth a lot more than my coins, so I bought a good gun safe. But I also store my coins and many of the things mentioned above in it too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1419161, member: 37498"]IMHO - More important than the quality of the safe, is how it's installed. Too many people buy a $1,000 safe and just plop it in a room or their closet. For it to be an effective deterrent, it needs to be bolted in place so burglars can't just lay it on its back and have at it with spud bars. Another good thing is to get to know your neighbors. My neighbors are better than any burglar alarm, because a burglar alarm won't call the cops when someone is peeking in the windows when we're not home. Yet another thing to consider when buying a safe, is how many other things will you store inside it? Sure, you only have $X worth of coins today, but if you had a good fireproof safe, wouldn't you also throw other things inside it that are valuable to you? Birth certificates, passports, vehicle titles, DD214's, guns, jewelry, watches, cash, computer backups, etc. My guns are worth a lot more than my coins, so I bought a good gun safe. But I also store my coins and many of the things mentioned above in it too.[/QUOTE]
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