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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 642958, member: 19409&quot;]I work in Contents Pricing for an insurance company.&nbsp; Basically, my job is to figure out how much we pay out to people who lost whatever it is that we insure.&nbsp; Just last week, I received a contents list that was made up entirely of a safe, an enormous amount of jewelry, silverware, and some bullion coins.&nbsp; It&#039;s actually pretty common for safes to go missing with whatever&#039;s inside them, so if you are going to go with a safe, make sure you get something of very high quality, or there&#039;s really not much of a point.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to comment about insuring coins: like GDJMSP said, most policies don&#039;t cover them for any more than face value, and there&#039;s often a a low coverage limit.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had to price out someone&#039;s large collection of Mercury dimes at $0.10 a piece, and I&#039;ve had others who hit the $200 limit* they had almost immediately, with many, many more coins that they received nothing for.**&nbsp; Make sure you talk with your insurance company to find out exactly what&#039;s covered and how.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Limits like this are generally for any currency, whether it be collectible coins or just some regular banknotes that you took out of your wallet for safe keeping.&nbsp; $200 is the most common amount for this that I see.</p><p><br /></p><p>**This also happens with jewelry and silverware ($1500 limit for jewelry is the most common at my company), so make sure that you have a policy that matches your needs!&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen someone lose over $20,000 of jewelry and only get the $1,500 back for it.&nbsp; Don&#039;t be that person![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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