How do you store your stash?

BuffaloBoy

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gun safe as well, the thing is so heavy there's no way in hell anybody would get away with it, not to mention the 6-digit code to open the safe with numbers ranging from 0-99 :) it's so sensitive that even if you're off by 1-2 numbers, it won't open.
fire resistant for somewhere 10 mins+ too, bolted to the floor. but hopefully i never will have to find that one out!
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BobClark

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I usually hide my stash up my nose. I feel its the safest and most fun spot to hide it.
 

Easy

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Statistically speaking, just like investments, you should probably diversify. Put some of the stash in a safe, hide some, and put some in a safety deposit box. That way, if one of the bad scenarios I listed above happens to you, you haven't lost the whole stash...just a portion of it.​

good idea
 

baddbluff

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These safes are fire resistant for 10-15 minutes. But unless you have a meth lab in your house with a lot of highly combustible compounds, I seriously doubt a fire in your home is gonna get up to the 1764 degrees F needed to actually MELT your silver stash. Right???

To those of you who like to show it off/enjoy your coins... I would be careful these days who you show your silver/coins to, esp if you just leave that stuff layin around. I suggest rotating your collection between home / bank.

Bank deposit boxes are the way to go. When was the last time you heard of someone robbing bank deposit boxes? Or getting your box audited?
 

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These safes are fire resistant for 10-15 minutes. But unless you have a meth lab in your house with a lot of highly combustible compounds, I seriously doubt a fire in your home is gonna get up to the 1764 degrees F needed to actually MELT your silver stash. Right???

To those of you who like to show it off/enjoy your coins... I would be careful these days who you show your silver/coins to, esp if you just leave that stuff layin around. I suggest rotating your collection between home / bank.

Bank deposit boxes are the way to go. When was the last time you heard of someone robbing bank deposit boxes? Or getting your box audited?
I'm no firefighter but I would not be shocked to see that a run of the mill house fire reaches those kind of temps....
 

baddbluff

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These safes are fire resistant for 10-15 minutes. But unless you have a meth lab in your house with a lot of highly combustible compounds, I seriously doubt a fire in your home is gonna get up to the 1764 degrees F needed to actually MELT your silver stash. Right???

To those of you who like to show it off/enjoy your coins... I would be careful these days who you show your silver/coins to, esp if you just leave that stuff layin around. I suggest rotating your collection between home / bank.

Bank deposit boxes are the way to go. When was the last time you heard of someone robbing bank deposit boxes? Or getting your box audited?
 

namster

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Eggs, baskets, not all in one, etc.

My silver is safely stashed in a safe on Mars, or maybe its a SDB, or something?
 

TimZim

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gun safe 1000 lb Some in bank box. My guard dog hes the best.
 

diggummup

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For those of you who question whether or not a house fire will get hot enough to melt silver, here is but a small example-

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Melted Morgan Dollar

As for where I keep my stash... a little here and a little there.
 

MIhunter

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90% of my stash is in safety deposit boxes (different banks). My binders with my coin collections is mostly at home for the kids and I to enjoy, but the gold, morgan dollars, and tubes of halves and dimes are in the bank. Fire or theft is much more likely than collaspe of civil society. If a bank fails, it is reopened quickly for safety deposit boxes owners to get the contents of their boxes.
 

Bobbypins

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I keep my goods in a 1,900 lb safe, rated for temperatures that will never be seen in a house fire, 2-step fire seals, anti pry doors, and another few hundred pounds of stuff inside. It ain't going anywhere.
 

namster

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I keep my goods in a 1,900 lb safe, rated for temperatures that will never be seen in a house fire, 2-step fire seals, anti pry doors, and another few hundred pounds of stuff inside. It ain't going anywhere.

Is it bolted down?
 

clorox

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Out here in earthquake country, where almost all houses are wood-framed, a house fire absolutely will get hot enough to severely damage coins. I've heard many stories of people losing their collections after the 1991 Oakland hills fire.
 

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