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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2646618, member: 24314&quot;]<span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">@swish wrote: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255)">&quot;I don&#039;t know anything about anything, but here&#039;s what it sounds like has been handed to me.&quot;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">IMO, your own words are key to my frustration with your posts.&nbsp; You asked if you missed anything.&nbsp; I&#039;ll answer that.&nbsp; <b><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">Yes you did - just about everything</span>.&nbsp; </b>See if this helps...</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">Let&#039;s pretend that the owner of CAC who worked at PCGS and left to start another TPGS - NGC, graded EVERY coin at PCGS and EVERY coin at NGC while he was at each service.&nbsp; Now he gets to examine a first generation slab at CAC.&nbsp; The ONLY POSSIBLE variables to this pretend &quot;exercise&quot; are:&nbsp; </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">1. His personal grading standards MAY have evolved over the passing thirty years.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">2. The commercial &quot;market grading&quot; DID CHANGE over the passing thirty years.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">One thing that did not change is the condition of the coin in the slab.&nbsp; Easy right?&nbsp; </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">Anyone dealing, collecting, or professionally grading can have an OPINION on the grade of that coin no matter what their connection to the coin is.&nbsp; TPG&#039;s don&#039;t have a connection to the coin when they grade it so give me permission for this &quot;exercise&quot; to claim that the owner of CAC did not have a financial interest in the coins he graded at PCGS and NGC.&nbsp; Now he does because he buys CAC coins.&nbsp; I should think that by putting his money &quot;on&quot; his CAC opinion does not make it a worthless product.&nbsp;&nbsp; One thing I will tell you.&nbsp; At least one person (the owner of CAC), who is more knowledgeable about the grades and values of coins than anything you... I&#039;ll stop there.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Hope this post helps change your thinking.&nbsp; </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">PS I have talked with the owner of CAC on two occasions trying to get him to accept ANACS, ICG, and SEGS for stickers.&nbsp; He will not - it&#039;s complicated. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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