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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bahabully, post: 1557271, member: 17555&quot;]I think Detecto has nailed it in his posts.</p><p>1 - I your home burned &quot;down&quot; (completely), then there&#039;s a 99.99% chance your coins are toast, other than melt value.</p><p>2 - A fire safe will not protect anything in a complete home burn down.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even if it maintained the contents at 350 an never went over that you&#039;d</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; be left with globs of completely melted plastic entombing your coins, burned paper, and smoked up coins.... and that&#039;s the happy path, most likely it would be worse.</p><p>3 - most bank SDB&#039;s are in the big door safe, which carriers an ensain level of fire protection and may times is completely surrounded by concrete and steel.&nbsp; </p><p>4 - if a bank completely burned &quot;down&quot; there&#039;s a 99.99% chance your coins would have never gotten over 200 degrees and would be fine... maybe some dehydrated and crispy paper, but likely no melted plastic.</p><p>5 - Put your high dollar coins in a SDB !! .... keep your bullion (silver) and lower value coins at home to play with and enjoy the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>cheers !![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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