# Best, most secure way to store gold and silver?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-most-secure-way-to-store-gold-and-silver/841081>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 1, 2019, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-most-secure-way-to-store-gold-and-silver/841081 "2019-10-01T07:16:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-most-secure-way-to-store-gold-and-silver/841081/61 "2019-10-03T12:45:26Z")

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I am surprised by the numbers given for the annual cost of a safe deposit box. We used to have one and it came free with our checking account, which was at a certain level of whateverness (ruby, silver, tungsten?).

Something you might want to check into if you’re thinking along these lines.

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**Author:** ![road\_lobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@road\_lobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/road_lobo)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-most-secure-way-to-store-gold-and-silver/841081/62 "2019-10-03T14:59:56Z")

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Banana Stand. Duh.

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-most-secure-way-to-store-gold-and-silver/841081/63 "2019-10-05T13:43:18Z")

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> [@Marcus\_Flavius](#):
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> I have 7k+ worth of gold and silver coins currently in my possession […]  
> This would just be a temporary measure until I can purchase my own home. […] If some lowlife broke in, ransacked the place, and managed to find it, I’d lose a substantial chunk of my wealth just like that.

I am sorry to say that if 7k+ means under 8.000$ in total and you want to buy a home, your problem is not where to hide 5 lousy ounces of gold, it is where to find a lot more money.  
That is, if a kilo is a thousand. Now, if 7k+ means seven million dollar (in Spain _un kilo_ means one million, as thousand one-thousand-pesetas bills weighed one kilogramm when we had pesetas as a currency), then your problem will become weighty.

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