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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 264269, member: 4552&quot;]Here are some things to consider. First of all if your sock drawer was filled with dirty socks, no crook would go in there. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> If you put them on a table right in plain site, crooks would think they are just toy money and possibly leave alone. Glue them to a sheet of cardboard, add to a picture frame and hang in your home.:goofer:</p><p>As to safes. Note they are rated for fire protection. Most are water, air, fire, smoke protected. Most are very heavy and filled with coins are not an easy item to remove by criminals. </p><p>Note that anyone seeing a safe would think you have a substantial amount of money available so you would have to find a hinding place for the safe and if large, not easy. </p><p>Remember that a safe will keep the same air in that was there when the thing was opened. So you would have to constantly add a air, moisture, etc protector such as the silica gels everyone&nbsp; raves about. </p><p>The really worse thing is although a safe is fire retardant, they are not heat proof after a certain amount of time. What this means is in case of a fire, the safe would get hot, although slower than a couch, but still get hot. The longer the fire the hoter it gets. This is true of the inside as well. The safe retards heat to a point and then becomes a furnace to a point. Now if you have anything in there in the way of plastic and a fire hits, you&#039;ll have liquid plastic in minutes all over your coins. If you have coins touching each other, they could possibly fuse together from intense contant heat. If you have cardboard, paper, wood, etc in the safe with your coins, that too would help create a mess as the heat rises. Some people put coins in a safe with guns and ammunition. Imagine what happens at about a few hundred degrees there. </p><p>Safes are good but also could be the end of your collection.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One neighbor had a large Gold coin collection in a safe in his house. Way to much bragging for our area. He ended up in the hospital, safe blown open, coins gone. Another friend had a safe. Went on vacation. While gone moving truck pulled up, took his safe, they told nosey neighbors that this family was moving, safe now gone. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Every thing is relative.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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