hi, ive just started collecting some kooks and was planning on storing them in a hard case so that it is easily viewable and air tight as well. http://www.bunnings.com.au/products_product_kincrome-medium-safe-case_2445.aspx note just a hobbist here so i wont be neeing a vault/safe box at this stage how do you guys keep your coins? cheers!
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If they are really expensive coins, you do need a safe storage. If they are just things that you won't mind being taken away in case of burglary, then you can keep them at home. Odds of a burglary is not high, but it needs only to happen once to make it hurt real bad.
The best way to store silver is to make access so hard that you need at least 4 hours to get silver in or out. So you chose a room (away from street), bring in a safe, locate it in an inner corner (as many walls as possible) then buy big cabinet that you screw together yourself once inside the room, so many that you havent room to turn your ass anymore. Then you buy heavy stuff that is cheap (like halter weights) and fill the cabinets base decks with them. The upper decks you fill with light strong stuff that takes alot room like hard plastic boxes and in the holes you set bottles with marbles that thus break when they drop. Eventual you can fill holes with pieces barbwire. If you did the job well then the tempt to watch the shiny stuff should be defeated by the effort to get to them.
lol wtf? This is all suspended above a pit full of baboons waiting to rip shoelaces and trouser cuffs off any intruders right?
Hi Dindu, I put my coins into the vacuum seal bags that can be reopened and resealed. There is probably no real need to do this but it makes storage very easy as the bag goes as stiff as a board once the air is sucked out. You can then stack the bags, nothing is loose, nothing gets damaged. I have some bags with the boxed coins inside, stops the box getting damaged as well. If you get big enough bags you may be able to fit the baboons and laser sharks in as well, I don't worry about them
Haha, awesome! Obviously, a room full of booby-trapped cabinets just makes you look insane, especially if they are full of marbles and barbed wire, not to mention the baboons. I have heard it said that the best place to keep anything is an old icecream container in the garage, as no one would expect to find anything in there but rusty nails.
Why, those disc shaped shiny things over there; they're not coins? Fancy metal tiles for the bathroom maybe?
What a great idea! A line of "feature" dragon tiles around the bathroom wall. At $400 for 4, I wonder what that works out to, per square metre?
Speaking of rusty nails, you could always seal up your bars and hide them in the ice-cream container with the nails on top, so that if anyone DID look inside........
i think we have gone over this before... we all forget things sometimes.. dont want to forget you have 'SHINY' under all that rust and throw it out.
Security through obscurity is the best (and cheapest) way to store anything valuable. It even has layers. First someone has to suspect your house has valuables. Second, they have to know where to look for it. Not gonna happen if you get creative.
Keep them dry and away from cigarette smoke. Don't handle them without wearing cotton gloves. Avoid wrapping them in paper or plastic that could leech out substances that will spot or tarnish your coins over the next 10 years. Not sure which plastic wrap or bag is safe - perhaps nylon ? Keep a small bag of desiccant ( silica gel ) in the bag.
I might get one of these, could anyone please tell me what plastics I need to avoid having when storing silver? http://item.rakuten.co.jp/murauchi-denki/4977187330656/ http://item.rakuten.co.jp/murauchi-denki/4977187330632/
vacuum sealed is the best I have found. I now have a clear tube in stock that acys a vacuum pack. PVC free. Coin and capsule is stored in tube. Regards Maggie
