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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7331609, member: 105098&quot;]Well well well....... </p><p><br /></p><p>First off, I don&#039;t mind long winded posts, although I still have no idea what you are talking about in your post and I&#039;ve read it twice now. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I&#039;m educating myself about CAC&quot;.</p><p>ramble ramble ramble....</p><p>&quot;Here’s where I’m stumped.&quot;</p><p>Ramble Ramble Ramble</p><p>&quot;I gotta be missing something somewhere! Or am I?&quot;</p><p>ramble ramble ramble</p><p>&quot;Are CAC stickers worth the expense? I don&#039;t know. But they sure do attract attention.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It in fact was a meandering rant about CAC and I have no idea what exactly your point was in all that typing except to sum up in 4 words &quot;I don&#039;t like CAC&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I&#039;m going to put my cards on the table. I don&#039;t own a single graded coin by a TPG, nor do I own a CAC coin. I don&#039;t work for any of the companies either, nor am I a dealer of coins. I grade my own coins and I&#039;m not in a market to sell any of what I have. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the TPG, you would agree, it provides a service and a function right? </p><p>Some grader, you have no idea who they are, looks at your coin, gives you an opinion and closes it up in a fancy case with a bar code and it&#039;s the bees knees!</p><p><br /></p><p>Same goes for CAC, it provides a service and a function. Not all MS66 is created equal. not all MS67 are either. if you have no need for the service, don&#039;t use it, literally no one is forcing it on you. if it&#039;s not for you, don&#039;t use it.</p><p><br /></p><p>CAC&#039;s founder, John Albanese, is a co-founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Coin_Grading_Service" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Coin_Grading_Service" rel="nofollow">PCGS</a>, started in 1986, and founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatic_Guaranty_Corporation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatic_Guaranty_Corporation" rel="nofollow">NGC</a>, in 1987. He is well known in the hobby as a superior rare coin dealer, and founder of the big two grading companies. That&#039;s his provenance. The service CAC provides is that,&nbsp; for every graded coin,&nbsp; within the grade there are high end examples, and there are low end examples. A green CAC sticker means it&#039;s not a low end example, a gold sticker means it&#039;s the highest end example.</p><p>Again, if it&#039;s not a service you are interested in, don&#039;t use it. it&#039;s just ANOTHER opinion, of an opinion from a TPG. Learn how to grade and you&#039;ll find paying for the TPG opinion is a waste of money also. I mean, it could be some 18 year old highschool dropout grading your coins, you have no idea who it is, or if they can even grade accurately, that&#039;s just reality, you also trust them to know what they are doing, because in the end, their reputation rides on it just like CAC.</p><p><br /></p><p>CAC provides quality assurance of a graded coin for $14.50 valued up to $10,000 or $30 for coins valued over $10,000. if you don&#039;t want to pay that money or don&#039;t want or need the assurance, don&#039;t use the service.</p><p><br /></p><p>IF there is a green or gold bean on a &quot;doctored&quot; coin, then the doctored coin got into a NGC or PCGS holder in the first place and got past them, so the example looks bad on TPGs also. </p><p><br /></p><p>Are CAC stickers worth the expense? </p><p>Some people sure think they are, just like some people think grading fees for some randoms opinion of their coin is worth the expense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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