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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3104153, member: 27832&quot;]I sold some common silver dollars at the show this past weekend.</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of them were coins that I paid less than $10 for (a rare opportunity, one I couldn&#039;t pass up). They were cleaned. I sold them for $15. Yay, me! If I buy things at unusually low prices, I can sell them at the going rate, and make a profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did the cleaning <i>increase</i> their value? No. It <i>reduced</i> their value. If they hadn&#039;t been cleaned, I would have gotten $17-30 for each.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you think you improved your coins&#039; value by washing them, you&#039;re wrong. That&#039;s all there is to it. You may not have <i>dropped</i> the value any further -- those were not premium coins even before you got your hands on them -- but you didn&#039;t <i>raise</i> their value.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you wanted to &quot;test your theory&quot;, you should have washed <i>half</i> the coins, offered the washed and unwashed ones in separate transactions, and seen how the value compared.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you think washing can &quot;increase <b>melt</b> value&quot;, I&#039;m not sure further conversation can help. Maybe you think washing transmutes dirt into more silver. I honestly don&#039;t know at this point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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