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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jason Hoffpauir, post: 2092425, member: 67527&quot;]NO I am in the same boat as you.&nbsp; Everyone is entitled to an opinion and here is mine.&nbsp; CAC and Star allocation, etc...are a gimmick.&nbsp; It is a way to make people have a warm and fuzzy about a coin they bought or intend to buy or even sell.&nbsp; And your right, in 10 years or so there will probably be some &quot;gold&quot; dot program that will give you confidence in the CAC system as people in general have to have some kind of reinforcement that they got the &quot;right&quot; coin at the &quot;right&quot; price.&nbsp; It exists so people can say to others (whether it&#039;s on eBay when they sell or buy&nbsp; or in coin forums like this) I have all these certifications listed on this coin; therefore what the Greysheet says I MUST get...I GET!!!&nbsp; Coins don&#039;t need TPG&#039;s...but TPG&#039;s need coins.&nbsp; You should be able to buy a coin with the same confidence raw as if it was slabbed.&nbsp; The coin makes the slab...not the other way around.&nbsp; We live in a world where we absolutley need justifciation or a letter grade for what we possess.&nbsp; This magazine says my car is better than yours...that TPG is better than that TPG...even though some of the graders have worked interchangeabley for the top 3 TPG&#039;s. What; did all of a sudden they lose objectivitiy becuase they work for ANACS instead of PCGS?&nbsp; I dont think so.&nbsp; Now, I know I will be attacked and given a sermon on why CAC, Star, ++ MUST exist, but REALLY they don&#039;t.&nbsp; Standards change every 30-40 years and sometime in the near future the MS-60 to MS-70 system will be obsolete.&nbsp; What then?&nbsp; I look at like this...one day when son inherits my coin collection...what will I say, &quot;son come and hold this beautiful coin&quot; OR will I say &quot;son, come and hold this coin holder&quot;.&nbsp; Most humans are tactile and so I will hope I can say the first quote.&nbsp; Life is too short to sweat the small stuff. JMHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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