If anyone wants me to hold their PMs for safe keeping (for a small fee) I will.
Call it the TB2K PM fund. But then the big guy would want a small fee too! All good.
JK.
On a serious note, I've long said that relying on anyone else, or any other entity, to hold your precious metals is a very bad idea. There have been almost endless cases of government confiscation or outright theft of metals to make it a good idea.
There are reputable firms (like Sprott metals as just one example) who can be trusted custodians of your precious metals, but even the most trusted firms are not immune to government actions. In 1933 when Roosevelt confiscated the peoples' Gold, government agents were immediately dispatched to the banks to inspect the contents of peoples safe deposit boxes when they tried to remove their contents.
The banks weren't trying to be dishonest, but they had to adhere to the government's edicts. Countless people lost their metals even though they were in a "safe" bank.
IMHO the best way to keep your metals is
to keep your metals! IOW keep them in your own, physical possession. A heavy safe might be one way to store some of them, but you shouldn't keep all your eggs in one basket. Perhaps keep a portion in your safe, but bury some of them and put others in some handy, secret location.
I'll offer a few hints in that regard:
First, forget about the cheap (and not so cheap), sheet metal safes out there. Anyone with an angle grinder can make short work of them. If you are going to use a safe, get an old, heavy safe with a combination lock. The safe should be hidden and heavy enough that two men can't move it. Anything less is giving you more peace of mind than it should.
You might drill a hole into a 2x4 or 4x4 structural member of your house or outbuilding. Put your Gold or Silver coins into this hole and then reinstall the structural member. As a temporary measure, you might put some coins into the air filter of your vehicle. If you do that, be sure that the coins are on the outside of the actual filter element so they can't be sucked into the engine's intake! You could also put some coins into the coolant reservoir or perhaps into a large fuel filter. There are lots of ways to hide things in a vehicle. Don't put them inside of your spare tire like you see on TV!
One of the better ways to hide your PMs is to bury them. Put the coins into a glued and sealed 2" PVC pipe and bury them two to three feet down. Use a post hole digger so that you only have to make a small hole.
Years ago I had an elevated rental house. This house had a concrete slab landing at the base of the stairs. I had secreted over $80,000 of gold buried under that slab. One of my tenants was a woman whose boyfriend was a member of a 1% (outlaw) biker club. For a long time bikers came and went walking right over that slab without a clue what was underneath. Even if - for some virtually impossible, outlier reason - someone decided to lift that slab, they still wouldn't have seen anything because the Gold was
buried under the slab.
Don't put your metal into the freezer or into hollow books. Thieves and cops always look there. You might consider using a large deep freezer if it's full. In that case, insert your coins into a large slab of real meat, wrap the meat, mark it as "chuck roast" or "ground beef" or similar and place it at the bottom of the freezer. Then put the other contents on top of it. I've never heard of thieves actually removing all the contents of a large freezer, defrosting everything and then dissecting the meat! BTW, only put Gold coins in the meat, not Silver.
These tips should give you something to work with.
Best
Doc