Not long after I had gotten back into coin collecting following my college career, my home was burglarized by a thief searching for my coin collection. As it turned out, I had hidden the bulk of my collection before going out of town and had not gotten around to retrieving it from its hiding place. Thank goodness!
Although the thief stole quite a few coins that weren’t particularly valuable, the theft shocked me into action. The next day, I transported my good stuff to our bank and rented a safety deposit box (SDB) and that’s where my good coins have been ever since.
So how safe are my coins? I was shocked recently to encounter a Coin-Talk chat under the
