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Message:: [QUOTE="Kirkuleez, post: 2318527, member: 36864"]You just have to understand the difference between the technical grade and market grading based on condition rarities. Would you consider it fair to send in the finest example of a coin just to get the technical grade when others of the same grade would be of inferior quality?  I'm betting the answer would be a resounding no there. Well it's the same for everyone else including the graders. Just because a coin doesn't quite reach the technical grade, it doesn't mean that coin can't be assigned a higher grade. This is market grading at its finest. Basically the grading companies assign the coin a value more than giving it a true technical grade. I'm not a big fan of this practice, but it is what it is. Fortunately us regular folks don't need to worry so much about this because we wouldn't pay crazy money for a 1/0 coin just for bragging rights. This is more of an investor market sort of coin. Do you really think that there are technical MS-69 early copper coins from the late 1700s?  Probably not, but a few exist because they are finer than the nicest MS-68. When it comes to CAC (or any other sticker service for that matter), and though I have a ton of respect for JA, does little for me. I have several coins with CAC stickers, but it was usually just icing on the cake, it didn't influence my decision to buy it one way or another.[/QUOTE]