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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michelle_7728, post: 3295787, member: 100266&quot;]We have a Liberty Lincoln fire safe, rated at 90 minutes...bought years ago before we collected coins....but we keep our coins in there as well now.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have a dry rod at the bottom of the safe, a couple containers of Dry-z-Air, and a couple of the Eva-Dry E-500s as well, and it still reads 50% humidity with the humidity gauge we put in there.&nbsp; We also keep all of the coins in Intercept boxes.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far I have not seen adverse issues resulting, but it&#039;s only been a few years.</p><p>Is 50% humidity too much?&nbsp; Should we replace the dry rod with a Peet air-circulating dehumidifier?&nbsp; Has anyone on the forum tried them both and have an opinion on that?<font size="6"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I understand that fire safes do tend to collect humidity, so I&#039;d rather be safe (no pun intended) than sorry...I am wondering if keeping them in there is just a bad idea...maybe put them in a safety deposit box?&nbsp;&nbsp; But that&#039;s no fun, because you couldn&#039;t easily take them out to enjoy looking at them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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