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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2689475, member: 19463&quot;]I agree fully that trays are the best answer and I used them until recently when my collection size made it not practical.&nbsp; My bank offers boxes 10x10x24.&nbsp; Trays are roughly 9x13x1/2 for cheap ones and a bit more for Abfil.&nbsp; Trays come in sizes for small coins with 77 spaces and large ones with 24.&nbsp; Most useful for my uses were the middle size holding 40 coins.&nbsp; The boxes length would not accept two rows so I was limited to one stack of 18 trays.&nbsp; When a collection is between 400 (large space trays) and 1300 (small space) coins, all is well.&nbsp; For the last decade, I had a mix of trays and paper envelopes but now I&#039;m all envelopes.&nbsp; For those of you who consider a $100,000 collection to be 100 coins at $1000 each, trays are the way.&nbsp; 1000 coins at $100 each overfills a box if 18 trays is the limit (my experience - your bank may differ) unless you want to rent a second box.&nbsp; I doubt that many &gt;$50 late Roman bronze collectors use trays in safe deposit boxes.&nbsp; A lot of my coin enjoyment now comes from looking at photos.&nbsp; I preferred trays but &#039;outgrew&#039; them.&nbsp; Paper envelopes in 9&quot; red single boxes do better (44 boxes seem good for about 3000 coins but don&#039;t buy many sestertii).&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have fears of an armed robber breaking into Steve&#039;s place and forcing him to open that safe (holding his wife and dog hostage?).&nbsp; When he saw that the gun safe had junky old coins and not cool guns he could get really mad and start shooting.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps the safer place would be to outfit one room as a nursery and store the coins in the diaper hamper. </p><p><br /></p><p>I hope to live long enough to see Steve post that his collection will no longer fit in that safe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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