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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1580626, member: 4626&quot;]Amazingly Eliasberg seemed to not take much interest in what to him at the time, was modern coinage.&nbsp; He finished out the collection of course, but didn&#039;t spend a lot of time trying to find the absolute best examples of 20th century coinage (besides some gold) and just grabbed coins from pocket change and called it a day; quite often these examples would just be AU or even just XF.&nbsp; In hindsight you&#039;d wonder what the heck he was thinking, but look at what to us is modern coinage and how little esteem current collectors hold it all in.&nbsp; Perhaps we should be taking the long view lol... a lot of clad coinage in choice condition may very well be hard to find in 50 to 100 years and future collectors will be fighting over what little our generation has bothered to save and preserve!&nbsp; (So maybe slabbing low value modern coinage isn&#039;t as foolish as you think if you take the long view lol... your heirs may very well thank you for it!&nbsp; Sadly it won&#039;t do YOU much good unless you take joy in knowing your grandchildren or great-grandchildren will profit from your foresight after you&#039;re gone.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As to what the Eliasberg name is worth?&nbsp; Probably a little over what the coin would otherwise sell for, as it&#039;s a famous provenance that itself is quite collectible.&nbsp; Not a huge amount (especially if it&#039;s the &quot;modern&quot; by his standards part of the collection) but I think it should be worth something.&nbsp; Exact amount, depends on the specific coin I think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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