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Safe deposit box question.

topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

Will a bank let you take the tin inner box out of the bank to fill it ....NEATLY.... and then bring back a full box and lock it up?

Sure would be handy. :)

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a good idea; I can even clean it better but I never tried. :/

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 37,034 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Shouldn't this question go to your bank? Even if mine does, it doesn't mean yours does. And I don't know that a box at my bank will work for you if it's 1500 miles away. :wink:

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd be curious about the answer. But, I suspect they will think you are nuts and will say no. (I for one would want to scrub and decontaminate a new SDB).

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,851 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ask the bank. Be willing to leave a deposit on the box. Half the people who would do that would never return the liner.

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 1, 2018 10:47AM

    I'm thinking not. Give your bank a call and find out.

  • TopoftheHillTopoftheHill Posts: 200 ✭✭✭

    Doesn't your bank have one of those "private" rooms to handle your SDB? They will let you stay in there as long as it takes...

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My SDBs at two banks are unlined.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TopoftheHill said:
    Doesn't your bank have one of those "private" rooms to handle your SDB? They will let you stay in there as long as it takes...

    Yes. What I want to do will take some ...close..fitting. :D

  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭

    @Swampboy said:
    My SDBs at two banks are unlined.

    What do you mean by "unlined?" When you remove your inner box is the remaining area still fully enclosed by
    a metal housing? Otherwise, you could open the adjacent boxes with an old fashioned can opener.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 1, 2018 12:32PM

    @TopoftheHill said:
    Doesn't your bank have one of those "private" rooms to handle your SDB? They will let you stay in there as long as it takes...

    Do they also provide some magazines? :o:D

    What kind of "bank" was this again? :*

    Sorry... :p

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,873 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My father used to do it with his bank, but that was 50 years ago. The metal box was painted black, with an American Eagle on it.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting question, keep us posted !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • philographerphilographer Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hey, look at that dude struggling to walk down the street with his safe deposit box liner! It looks heavy. Let’s go see what he has in it...

    He who knows he has enough is rich.

  • I have had SDB's at three different branches of two different banks. The "official" answer has always been no at all of them. I have done it at the current branch a few times, but the tellers and management have turned over countless times since the cool crew was there. Today, I wouldn't even bother asking.

  • HallcoHallco Posts: 3,679 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Read the safebox agreement you signed originally. If you do not have the copy they gave you, ask for another. Ours clearly states that the inner box is property of the institution and may not be removed from the premises. Good luck!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not a problem for me... I keep my coins within my control. ;) As some character on TV used to say "Pity the fool who messes with my coins.".... :D:D Cheers, RickO

  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,714 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @philographer said:
    Hey, look at that dude struggling to walk down the street with his safe deposit box liner! It looks heavy. Let’s go see what he has in it...

    My thoughts exactly. Pretty big security red flag. Carrying a 24" box into or out of the bank isn't exactly inconspicuous.

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