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Hi All
How many of you have Insurance on your Collections ?
If so what is the best Insurance Company do you think is for this .
Just in this day and age Ive been thinking about insurance on my collection .
I do have my collection stored in Safes . But just wanted to hear some advise from the Crew !! Always like to hear the Sage advise from the Crew .

Many Thanks
John

If you are an ANA member, you can check with Hugh Wood Inc. They cater to ANA members.

https://hwinternational.com/us/

For years I had a separate Marine ins. policy from Nationwide. They changed it to be an attachment on my homeowners policy recently. No matter from whom, the more you got the more costly it is. I tried to get prices from a couple of places & they're all in the same ballpark on prices. Since I do shows, it's necessary to have.
Dave

Mercer Consumer

Used for many years.

Material kept in bank vault; get asked every year on renewal where kept; suspect it would be higher if kept elsewhere.

Storing in the bank vault yields the cheapest insurance premiums,
in my experience.

State Farm, rider attached to my homeowners policy.
You will need to provide a list for them.
*note* They do NOT insure bullion, only collector coins.
* note* Bank SDB's also will not insure bullion.

Hugh Wood

Once your collection surpasses the volume of a safe deposit box it seems to me that you are on your own.

My answer is a large safe with a 3 hour fire rating and several guns.

Seems to work so far.

Problem with safes are .
If someone put a gun in your face you will open it.
They may leave or shot you.
I keep my collection in bank boxes.
Cost 60.00 a year, size of boxes 20 inches long and 10 by 10 inches square
Should hold probably 18 pcgs boxes per box.
I check probably 40 years ago about insurance.
Wow cost 18.00 per thousand and need update on what you had.
Next do not get on here and say you got a safe.
Just takes someone to look you up.
My opinion
Larry

Knowing that underground NYC is largest bullion depository rather than the
original Fort Knox will give us a clue to security & safety.
I have endured many yrs of providing security and insurance and definately
not by bank safety (not) boxes that dont hold shit anyway.

There are several various secure /insured ways to protect assets, withot breaking
your own bank.

Well I would be pretty confident that many people here have a safe, somewhere. I hope no one leaves their coins laying around on a desk or in a drawer regardless of value. For most of us the value in the collection isn't in the bullion value or marketability, it is in the skill to build it. I would never have the energy to rebuild my collection and that is the store of value for me. I am much more worried about fire, water, or weather.

My comments were somewhat tongue in cheek because I always think the really high dollar collections are small numbers of very expensive rare coins, not hundreds of VAMed Morgans. I certainly don't have any of those. But for some this is a real issue and I don't think it has a near term solution. Interesting to talk about, but I don't think there is an answer for the average collector other than some type of safe.

The problem with safe deposit boxes is that you can only access them when the bank is open, the cost of the box rental, gas to get there and back, and a general lack of access to coins. This defeats the purpose of collecting for most people because it is the coin you want in your hand, not a safe deposit receipt.

There used to be a collector on this forum that stated his collection approached 10k PCGS graded coins, or about 500 boxes. There is no option other to provide your own storage at that size. I don't think any modern collector could afford to build up that many graded coins starting from scratch, so perhaps a unique problem.

A thief would be smarter to steal my truck. You can get a blue book value pretty easily, and it is more marketable. It does have 120k miles on it, so not in MS condition. There is a ding in the right front bumper that might even N grade it since it is post production damage. But right now there is rarity with the chip shortage.