Ups and Downs (!) At FUN 2026

TC, do you know if CAC or JA have said what % of CAC stickers are gold ?

Is it 5% or 1% or even less ?

 

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Thanks for the show report. I do hope you will remember to tell your primary doctor you took a fall; if nothing else it is one way to make sure there are no underlying problems or results from the fall. I took a fall moving trash cans but didn't know i cracked my tailbone for a couple months. Good luck in the future and happy collecting. james

 

Here is a good thread from a few years ago. As of the end of 2024, the calculation was ~1.5% of all CAC stickers were gold. And in general it was 43% of coins sent in received any kind of sticker (that number should not be generalized to all coins though since many people tend to send in coins they think should sticker; so the actual total potential stickerable population is likely well under 43%).

https://forums.collectors.com/discu...ac-gold-green-sticker-rates-across-all-series

 

Thanks, great info DDDDD.

I recall an article quoting JA that for a particular Saint year -- I think it was 1922 but don't quote me -- the available supply of coins in a high grade was very low so the sticker rate was pretty decent. But for the 1924 where you have hundreds of thousands, not so.

 

@ddddd . Thanks for that information. Very good explanation about judging CAC populations. James

 

The % of coins that come back has a lot to do with who is picking the coins to send to CAC. My picks did OK but when I let Great Collections pick, the results were much better. I started letting GC take care of that.

 

LD, what made you submit what you did ?

Did you think a coin was clearly under-graded ? Or did you think for the grade it had really good luster...eye appeal...or something else ?

 

Eye appeal is always important.

 

Tell me about it, I'm still looking at my pair of DEs from FUN 2026 !!!

 

I can't make heads-or-tails out of the CAC Population Report

I see 2 numbers with a colon between them for most of the data set. I see no drop arrow for Green CAC vs. Gold CAC.

Anybody able to translate ?

https://www.cacgrading.com/pop/all/173