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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1563492, member: 41665&quot;]I&#039;d presume the SLAB (authentification) is what gets the premium, for &quot;damaged slabbed.&quot; I&#039;m curious to know what general premium the slab gets for &#039;average coins.&#039; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You haven&#039;t shown that to be true. &quot;Lots of money&quot; ? And eBay is the very bottom of the known-price coin market though, isn&#039;t it? (Beyond that: pawns, hot goods, fakes, etc.)</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Cleaned coins are presumably worthless&quot; sounds wrong to me. I see such identified &amp; sold in my LCS... CHEAPER YES, WORTHLESS NO. As for &quot;ruined value&quot; - maybe that was true 30 years ago for most &#039;modern&#039; Silver. But you see how a cleaned coin has (perhaps very seriously) IMPAIRED value, so the adage/caution still rings true. </p><p><br /></p><p>A silver lining maybe? I suppose buying cheaper &#039;cleaned coins&#039;/junk and <i>giving those examples </i>to beginning stage YNs - with stern warnings <i>against </i>cleaning - can serve a dual purpose. Older collectors really need to cultivate the next generation if the numismatic value of their collections is to be maintained - cheap junk might be instructional and aspirational to that end. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s my two cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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