# What's a good place to hide some gold coins? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 15, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777 "2014-03-15T16:50:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yawuntz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a5b964/32.png) [@yawuntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawuntz)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/21 "2014-03-15T23:16:36Z")
I’ve got the perfect hiding place but as soon as I tell you, it will be that much less perfect. Sort of like how Sheckley’s Theory of Searches invalidates itself. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/22 "2014-03-15T23:49:57Z")
I keep mine in 2 safe deposit boxes at my bank. (All of mine are certified, making them heavier than they already were. If they were all in one box I wouldn’t be able to lift it.) My heirs know where to find the key. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/23 "2014-03-17T03:51:29Z")
The best storage place for gold bought as an investment is in the pockets of a sucker. Sell the gold and invest in securities. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/24 "2014-03-18T20:46:42Z")
Don’t hide them anywhere in the apartment itself; in the toilet, heat vent, etc. Otherwise you’ll move or die and they won’t be found by you or your family. I’d suggest a safe deposit box or somewhere mundane like a box of cereal or oatmeal. ---
**Author:** ![Emerald\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Emerald\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emerald_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/25 "2014-03-18T23:43:04Z")
Dissolve your gold coins in aqua regia. Put the resulting liquid in a flask, and put it on a high shelf with your other chemicals. No, really: [http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story](http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story) ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/26 "2014-03-18T23:57:29Z")
Put them in the top left hand drawer of your desk. If you are burgled, they will find them quickly and likely not toss the rest of the place. If you die, someone will find them easily. Really, it’s the best way to minimize unnecessary chaos. ---
**Author:** ![Melchior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Melchior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melchior)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/27 "2014-03-19T01:06:12Z")
> [@Dahu](#): > > [This thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=718385) about hiding a key got me thinking. > > I’ve been considering buying some (maybe half a dozen) gold coins as an investment. Where could I hide them at home where a burglar wouldn’t find them? > > I live in an apartment so burying in the garden is out. I can think of the obvious places, but then they’d be obvious to a burglar too. I think I know a good one, but I won’t say. I’ll see if anyone else mentions it, then I’ll know it’s not secure! Access must be relatively easy too, so no pulling up floorboards. Bank safety deposit box. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/28 "2014-03-19T01:27:25Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Or a safe deposit box at your bank. > [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Safe deposit box at your bank. > [@friedo](#): > > +1. That’s what they’re for. Mine costs me something like $20 a year. > [@Bayard](#): > > Anyway, another vote for safe deposit box. Cheap and simple solution. > [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Ding! Anything else is begging for trouble. > [@Sunspace](#): > > :: burglars are taking notes on this thread :: > [@panache45](#): > > I keep mine in 2 safe deposit boxes at my bank. > [@control-z](#): > > I’d suggest a safe deposit box. . . > [@Melchior](#): > > Bank safety deposit box. > [@Sunspace](#): > > :: burglars are taking notes on this thread :: Watch for a sudden rash of bank safe deposit box heists! ---
**Author:** ![MoiBree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@MoiBree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoiBree)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/29 "2014-03-19T01:31:00Z")
Ah, that’s the #1 reason I don’t want to post stuff about myself on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/30 "2014-03-19T01:38:06Z")
Put them in the fish tank. No one will realize they’re real, and then you get to look at them all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/31 "2014-03-19T01:42:59Z")
> [@Emerald\_Hawk](#): > > Dissolve your gold coins in aqua regia. Put the resulting liquid in a flask, and put it on a high shelf with your other chemicals. > > No, really: > [Dissolve My Nobel Prize! Fast! (A True Story) : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR](http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story) That is remarkable. Never heard the story before. ---
**Author:** ![MoiBree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@MoiBree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoiBree)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/32 "2014-03-19T01:51:02Z")
I’m straight. I was born that way. I didn’t get to choose my sexual orientation. I’m pro-GAY to the max! I’ve been that way since a dear friend who was teaching at Yale died of AIDS when Reagan said nothing and did nothing. Idiots on the right need to understand the differences between born that way (gender, race, sexual orientation) and CHOICES such as religion. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777/33 "2014-03-19T01:59:05Z")
How do gold coins work in an End Of Civilization scenario anyway? Example: I have 1 dozen fresh eggs and I’m willing to barter off 6 of them. You have 1 oz gold coins. Am I supposed to come up with change? Or will you be paying me with a sliver of gold from your coin? I never went to Wharton business school. I figure the $$ value of something is how much someone else is willing to pay you for it. It seems many people don’t see it that way, like with the RE bubble of 07. Or should I say, they found out the hard way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-good-place-to-hide-some-gold-coins/683777.md?page=1)