street value

noun

1. the monetary worth of a commodity, usually an illicit commodity such as a drug, considered as the price it would fetch when sold to the ultimate user

Example Sentences

Amid an ongoing opioid crisis, a special task force of the California National Guard helped seize 1,542 pounds of fentanyl last month, with a street value of about $11.9 million, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times

A gang has been convicted after trying to smuggle cocaine with a street value of about £200m into the UK inside a shipment of bananas from South America.

From BBC

The prosecutor said: "The Crown rely on the absurdity that lies within the suggestion that an organised criminal gang would hand drugs valued at a street value of £200 million into the possession of a man who had absolutely no idea it was due to arrive."

From BBC

The discovery was made on Wednesday about 12:30 in Bridgegate, Irvine, with the drug's street value estimated to be between £1.2 and £1.8m.

From BBC

Leyson was one of six people arrested following a warrant at the farm in October 2021, when officers found 592g of cocaine with a street value of between £47,760 and £60,200 and 1.4kg of cannabis with a street value of approximately £15,615.

From BBC