TRESORGold coins are heavier than a watch and still small enough for a backpack. The price is public, the condition decides the spread. In the overview Security for collectors they sit with what the radar already names: coins appear on the loot list, less often than watches, but with individual high sums.
The case in the house
On 5 October 1967 masked armed attackers entered the villa of Willis du Pont in Coconut Grove, tied him and his wife up and took thousands of coins. The New York Times spoke in March 1968 of a robbery in the region of 2 million dollars, at the prices of that time, and of a part coming back against a ransom. This is the private case in which burglary, a person and extortion sit in one evening. Your apartment is not a villa in Miami. The pattern remains: someone knows the coins are in the house, and someone is at home.
How they leave otherwise
In the local radar up to August 2026 coins stand in a small two-digit number of cases, often together with jewelry and watches. A report from June 2026 names jewelry, cash, watches and coins in one apartment burglary with 100.000 Euro. Coin albums on the shelf are emptied faster than an anchored cabinet.
Where to put them
Albums you want to show do not hold the pieces whose price you want replaced in a claim. Those lie in the cabinet, in holders that give off no plasticizers. PVC pockets turn sticky and etch the surface. Year, denomination, mint mark and condition stand on the list, one line per piece, not "gold coins, various".
The papers
Purchase records and the list lie in the document cabinet. A second list, short, lies with the insurer. Anyone who puts a coin in a capsule writes the capsule number down as well, otherwise the count no longer matches after a breakage.