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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4435644, member: 110350&quot;]Since it will&nbsp; be another year or two before the three trays I&#039;m now using are full,&nbsp; I have plenty of time to figure out what to do at that point. If I ever do decide to put any of my ancient coins away, I have plenty of room, given this stack of 30 Lighthouse/Leuchtturm and Lindner coin trays (they&#039;re compatible with each other), made for a wide variety of coin sizes, in the back of one of my closets.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1109896[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Once upon a time, they held the portion of my collection of British coins and historical medals (including a large collection of silver crowns back to Charles II) that weren&#039;t in the large display case on the table in my living room (see the photos at the beginning of this thread).&nbsp; Now, these trays are at least one-third empty, since I sold about a third of that collection in number, but 90+% of it in value.&nbsp; Plus almost all of my collection of British gold coins back to James I, which I kept in a safe deposit box. Any thief would be very disappointed with the remaining coins in these trays, including the trays of white metal medals, and of well-circulated late 19th-century and 20th-century farthings through shillings that I collected as much as 40-50 years ago!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, my antiquities are probably worth almost as much as I was paid for all of the gold coins I sold, and I&#039;m certainly not putting them in a safe-deposit box. They wouldn&#039;t fit, and it would defeat the purpose of owning them. Frankly, so would putting any of the ancient coins in a safe deposit box.&nbsp; In any event, I live in an apartment building in a safe middle-class neighborhood -- not in a house, or a building full of wealthy people -- and I&#039;m really not too concerned. (Especially now, when I&#039;m almost always home and my only visitor in the last two months has been my son!)&nbsp; In normal times, I do put the coin trays away if anybody I don&#039;t know and trust, including people who work in the building, ever enters my apartment.&nbsp; And as I&#039;ve said before, most people who see the antiquities (including friends) assume they&#039;re reproductions, and have no idea that they&#039;re real.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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