Silver is cheaper per piece than gold and, in quantity, quickly turns heavy. A drawer full of thalers you can still lift alone. A box of twenty kilos is the point where anchoring and your back meet. In the overview Security for collectors silver coins sit next to the gold, with a different kind of damage from the air.

How they leave

The same reports as for coins in general. An offender takes the album, not the single edge lettering. Investment silver in heat-sealed packs is, for him, a crate with a known price. Historical coins without a list you can no longer name afterwards.

What time does to them

Sulfur from cardboard, rubber and some woods makes silver tarnish. Cotton gloves help less than clean holders without PVC. You do not wash a coin bright when the patina belongs to the condition. A damp cellar smells into the tin even when nobody breaks in.

Where to put them

Valuable single pieces in the anchored cabinet, the quantity of investment coins such that the cabinet may take the weight according to the maker. Anchoring is mandatory as soon as the cabinet lies under the weight limit from which it otherwise leaves as a whole. The guide on anchoring says how to do that without losing the certification.

The papers

List by denomination, year and mint mark. For investment coins the count per type is often enough, for collector pieces it is not. Records separate from the metal. The big coin robbery in the house, Coconut Grove 1967, is described under Gold coins. Silver lay in the boxes in collections of that kind as well.