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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Randy Abercrombie, post: 7331251, member: 92655&quot;]That is quite the mouthful for a first post! Welcome to the forum..... I am a fifty year collector of coins. I watched the advent of the TPG&#039;s as well as CAC with something of a hesitant heart and have long felt that each of these services have served to drive up the value of our hobby to stratospheric levels in many cases...... However, in recent years I have been blessed to be able to expand my collecting to some of the higher valued pieces that I could only dream of for the last fifty years. As a result, I have recognized the value the security in both a TPG as well as a CAC determination on the current coin of my desires. </p><p><br /></p><p>Several times in your post, you refer to &quot;discretionary income&quot;. In fact, that is what we are spending when we lavish ourselves with our dream coins. It is our discretionary income to spend as we choose. If I choose to spend that income on a nice Dansco folder or a CAC sticker, it is my choice to make, if that makes any sense. Frankly, I have only chosen to have one of my coins stickered, however I have purchased several others that were already CAC stickered. And considering that I was pursuing my own tastes in coins long before anyone ever heard of a TPG, I always have and always will purchase coins based on the appeal that I have established for myself, regardless of what the label may say.</p><p><br /></p><p>For arguments sake, lets say a new service comes along that can laser implant some security device in our coins. This is entirely a dream scenario only to illustrate a point..... The new service comes along and I choose to have all my high value coins &quot;implanted&quot; so I can track them if they are stolen. Because I have been the target of a coin theft in the past, this new service is a genuine value to me. Others will say, I am wasting my money. Maybe even potentially hurting the value of my collection, yadda, yadda..... But see, this is the great thing about my ability to choose what I do with my discretionary income. You don&#039;t have to be in favor of my choice. Yet it remains my choice. It&#039;s no different than changing the TV station when you don&#039;t like the program.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we have coin shows in my area, we have one dealer that sets up with high value coins. All his coins are CAC stickered and he sets that table up with lamps that make those coins and stickers just pop. I&#039;ll spend an hour at his table just marveling at the beauty of it all..... Are CAC stickers worth the expense? I don&#039;t know. But they sure do attract attention.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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