Check out this Awesome Coin Cabinet

numonebuyer

I am just stumbling along and came across this Awesome coin cabinet.

K6AZ

Prices start at $4500? This item is obviously for the "advanced" (i.e. wealthy) collector who lives in a secluded mansion with armed security.

Seriously, all these various display items are nice, but with the way things are today, I don't put a lot of trust in anyone. My coins for the most part are in the blue plastic PCGS boxes sitting in the bank vault.

numonebuyer

K6AZ

There are smaller cabinets as well. You mean to tell me your new home doesn't have a walk-in vault that could hold this fine piece of furniture?

K6AZ

Maybe I have just become paranoid, but I am aware of several collectors being ripped off in the last few years, and in most cases, they were ripped off by people they knew. Even if you have the best safe or vault, what good is it going to do with a home invasion robbery where a gun is pointed at your loved one's head and you are given the choice of either opening the safe or having them shoot your loved one?

Sorry if I sound negative, but this has become a dangerous world.

numonebuyer

I hear you.

It is still a pretty coin cabinet.

granddad

i agree with both of you, and would like to add: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of remedy!"

Have a Great Day!
Louis

K6AZ

It is, but kind of expensive for the kind of junk I keep around the house.

numonebuyer

Yes, it is a bit much to use for a sock and hankie cabinet.

granddad

You could always use one of the drawers to hold the loan payment book.

Louis

numonebuyer

Can you imagine how much that thing would weigh if it were filled with coins.

Robgetty

I agree that it doesn't meet most safety requirements (I keep the most valuable stuff
in a bank vault and any misc stuff worth more than $20 or so in a home safe) but it
does look like a beautiful piece of furnature. I have been starting to get more active
in woodworking, and I would not want to even think about how much time and money
it would take for me to duplicate something like that in a nice hardwood.

K6AZ

<< <i>You could always use one of the drawers to hold the loan payment book. >>



Loan payment book???

spy88

<< <i>An ounce of protection is a .44 Mag round!" >>

Or two, or three...however many it takes.

ms70

That is one nice cabinet!!!

orie

a fellow in my hometown tried to insure his collection. The agent ask where he kept his coins. His reply "under the bed". Oh no, you have to have a safe. Collector called the agent and said his house was broken into and they stole the safe. Agent ask the value of the collection. Collector replyed the coins were still under the bed.

ScarsdaleCoin

orie...like your story...

Barry

It also could be used as a great diversion. Put all your $10 coins in the cabinet, and put all your real coins in your desk drawer for easy acces and viewing.

earlwbollinger

Now if you make the outer part of the cabinet out of 3/8" steel, with an excellent lock system and really good hidden hinges; then cover the outside with a nice wood veneer and varnish and polish that; then we have a pretty nice coin cabinet for today's world.
The wheels should be foldable or removeable, so people can't just wheel it out on you.

coinlieutenant

numone...

That is WAY too much for a coin cabinet!!

I paid 300$ for my antique authentic turn of the century cabinet. Although I ripped it, full retail will run you about 800-1000$.

At least the guy got the wood right. Should always be mahogany.

John

dorkkarl

most of my coins are in the vault as well, though not in blue pcgs boxes - i'd have to rent the whole bank if my coins were slabed!

however, i think the linked coin cabinet is awesome. i too have a coin cabinet, it's actually a circa 1900 pharmacist's cabinet that i converted to display coins, etc.

K S

Baley

i'd have to rent the whole bank if my coins were slabed![sic]

sounds like a boast, to me

let's see some pictures!

dorkkarl

of bags of wheat pennies???? BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(hey baley don't ask me how, but i knew you were going there!)

K S

solid

That is one nice cabinet! Expensive, but very nice!