This came up in my email, or rather this was in an email that I clicked to get to it, but the header declares this as a CAC Gold coin, with an obvious CAC Green sticker. What gives? Is this a listing error or something else?
It appears to just be the photo. A quick verification over on the CAC website confirms a gold bean. https://www.cacgrading.com/lookup/50091613
I've run across a handful where the photo makes it ambiguous (green or gold) so the best thing to do is look at the cert page just like you did to confirm for certain.
What you see is what they say. GC hardly ever has a detailed description. https://www.greatcollections.com/Co...nt-Piece-PCGS-MS-65-CAC-Gold-Toned-from-photo It's interesting how they put their sticker on the back below their usual spot. I think they wanted to show the buyer that it wasn't their sticker that damaged the PCGS hologram.
As someone who has taken hundreds of photos of CAC coins with green and gold stickers, many of the Gold ones have this exact effect / "look" to them. I got so used to in in circa 2014 era that when I saw the OP photo, I was confused why he thought it was a green bean. I think even a normal person, (who has not personally taken the bean photos), CAN easily tell even from the linked photos this is a gold bean, but you really need to LOOK and train your brain for the telltale signs, and not just glance at it like we all tend to do when browsing. Well at least on a large PC monitor you can see the gold fringes around the edges of the sticker, phones I am not sure you can see what I will describe below. This is what I mean, top edge and right edge of sticker are clearly gold foil. Green CAC sticker shot at a similar angle look very different, see my coin here: (green top edge) Same here, green top edge, Blue lettering: Certainly the Cert page is faster and easier than what I am suggesting, but I wanted to give maybe a hint or two to what to look for. TEST YOURSELF, Is this coin Green or Gold Sticker? What about this one?
I actually tend to think they give more than most places, except the really verbose fancy auction description written up for pricey coins, GC leans on their photo skills to convey the coin beyond just the hard facts, such as these: The combo of the GC normal "Slab" shots (better than 90% of other auctions/dealers PLUS the "Great Photo" really gives you everything you need in most cases, my opinion of course. I do think they are also often consistently more accurate than many places with the cold facts and titles/names of the coins listed. But I also fully admit they make mistakes, I send them maybe an email a month with a mistake I catch, and these promptly fix and reply to me with a "thank you". I do this since with tens of thousands of coins listed, its hard for their team to see ONE coin with a small problem such as typo in the cert. I assume they genuinely appreciate it (and not just rolling their eyes), but I never really asked, LOL.
From what I'm seeing on my phone, each of those two CAC stickers has a gold border so I'll guess gold?
