User blog comment:Pokedude750/Total Value of the Stuff Psycho Dad has destroyed./@comment-26988161-20160314035637

I'm gonna question of the value of the silver play button because there are so many factors that plays into it's value, including the metal content.

Obviously the price would depend on the spot price of silver, which fluxuates daily on the weekdays. The other factors to question is "Is the play button made entirely of silver or is it silver plated", then how much it weighs in troy ounces (To calculate silver's price per troy ounce) and the purity ( such as 999 fine silver).

The first question is simply already answered with What's Inside YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPALbYj1ylY as when they cut the YouTube play button, it looked like it's entierly made of solid silver. The next question is going to be a bit tricky since there's no specs around on how much the YouTube play button weighs, however it does almost look like a size of a 10 troy ounce silver bar. As for the purity, that we don't know since it's not said that it's 999 fine silver or 925 silver (sterling silver) and I doubt any YouTuber would take it to a metalurgist or an assayer to perform a test on the play button's metalic purity. So we'll asume the play button is 999 fine. As of this comment (3/14/2016), silver spot prices are at US$15.60 per ounce (From APMEX). Multiply that to the weight of the silver play button (note, must be in troy ounces, not regular ounces) with spot prices and we'd get that the metal value of the play button to be around: US$156.00, asuming the play button weighs 10 troy ounces and has a fineness of 999.

The value damage to the YouTube Silver Play button is debateable depending on your point of view. Based on the metal content, Psycho Dad did no damages to diminish the value of the play button (Silver is very maluble and would just flatten each time Psycho Dad strikes it with the hammer). Psycho Dad can cut the silver play button, but that would only leave it in fractional amounts and in total would still retain the value on the total amount of metal content. If based on the quality (if were grading numismatic coins) then Psycho Dad has done significant damages to the button that effected the value of the button which reduces it's value to the value based on the metal content.