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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SilverSurfer, post: 1006965, member: 21603&quot;]I&#039;ve taken two ASE out of the tube and started banging the two coins together.&nbsp; Now that they are sufficiently &quot;damaged&quot;, I took them to a dealer to see what I&#039;d get for them.&nbsp; 98% of spot.....the dealer didn&#039;t even look at the coins surface.&nbsp; I take another coin out of my pocket in a protective sleeve that I&#039;ve never touched before, just the rim.&nbsp; I ask, &quot;what would I get for this&quot;....98% of spot.&nbsp; I was like, &quot;this coin is in mint condition, you didn&#039;t even look at the other coins&#039; surfaces.&nbsp; Why would I give you this Mint state coin for the same price I gave you the other two that have been in my pocket for over a month banging on other coins?&nbsp; I was told I would have to talk to the owner to get a better deal, but mostly I&#039;d just get 100% spot, which amounts to $.40 a coin.&nbsp; So, I say, &quot;ok, I guess I&#039;ll go home and just treat my ASE any ol&#039; way and bang the crap out of them, since you don&#039;t really seem to care how they look.&nbsp; It&#039;s not like I&#039;d be losing anything by doing that.&quot;&nbsp; Of course this produced a frown, as I&#039;m sure the dealer can sell a mint state coin much easier than a banged up on....and probably for a higher premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t asked this yet, but I&#039;m going to soon.....&quot;if the spot price is for a 1000 ounce bar, and this is an individual coin it should be worth more, as it took work to produce it.&nbsp; Of course, a premium was attached to this coin when I bought it, why am I the one that has to eat that premium, can&#039;t it be passed onto the next buyer, especially if the coin has been kept in mint condition?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This is just one dealer...I&#039;m testing this out on several dealers, as I feel I won&#039;t know the answer to this question until I test it out myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the flips and the haziness.....the flips should be a brittle plastic.&nbsp; If the plastic is &quot;soft&quot; and flexible, then it more than likely contains some PVC, which will get on the coins.&nbsp; Non-PVC plastic sleeve is what you should be storing them in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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