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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1420716, member: 24091&quot;]It&#039;s not as bad as you think...,, My bank is only 6 blocks away and I can ride a bike or walk. It&#039;s downhill on the way there too, so it isn&#039;t a difficult ride. They have a nicely appointed room to take my safe deposit box to, plus coffee and a real friendly staff. That describes most small to medium size banks with safe deposit vaults, the larger impersonal banks are to be avoided. What makes my bank special are the hours, the safety deposit section is open on Saturdays from 9:00AM until noon. Most banks if they are open at all on Saturday, don&#039;t open the lobby up. I make the trip over there at least once every 7 weeks and bring along recharged desicant canisters to toss in the boxes (yup, got more than one!). There are just too many things that can go wrong with any collection being kept at the house if it is worth any considerable amount of money. You could install a 4,000 pound safe and it still can be hauled away by determined thieves. Add in fires, floods, tornados, and all the other possibilities and having the coins in the bank seems like the only rational solution to me, though it does prevent a collector from messing with his coins on a daily basis. That&#039;s not to say I dont sometimes bring the entire collection home with me occassionally so I can photograph the coins with whatever new camera I might have. That happens every 4 or 5 years, and the coins are here at the house for maybe 3 days max.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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