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<p>[QUOTE="fiddlehead, post: 6442203, member: 31286"]Just an ordinary consumer/collector here. Never got the kind of experience others have had, in part because I have never been able to get to shows. So, with that caveat, I do have a perspective on CAC. I mostly collect older, somewhat rare coins. Pre-civil war coins, most graded higher VF to lower AU. With old, circulated coins - pieces that vary a lot in terms of quality within grades, CAC has been very useful to me. About 60% of what I own have stickers and about half of those I sent in myself. I do have one coin, a reasonably valuable one that I know failed to CAC as an XF40 but did CAC as a VF35. It's a lovely coin with quite a lot of honest circulation and I don't think it's ever been messed with. I tend to agree that it is an A/B 35 but would have been a C/D as a 40. </p><p><br /></p><p>Among circulated coins, by and large CAC seems to favor coins with original surfaces This has been confirmed time and again by the coins I sent in that were stickered. Usually they are better looking, but not always. Sometimes it surprises me, but then original surfaces are not always better looking. I have a few that I was surprised they didn't sticker and a few I was surprised they did - but mostly I see consistency there. So .... Just the point that among older circulated coins CAC stickers may be more relevant and helpful than in discerning the differences between MS63, 64 or 65 more common coins. With old circulated coins there may be more opportunity for quality variation within a grade. For me, although I know it has an impact on marketability, it's less interesting when considering the differences within MS grades. I can tell you this - from time to time I've bought something that fit into my collection(s) at what I thought was a great price (i.e. well below the price guides and auction records), sent it to CAC and got a sticker. That, friends is a little like hitting the lottery![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="fiddlehead, post: 6442203, member: 31286"]Just an ordinary consumer/collector here. Never got the kind of experience others have had, in part because I have never been able to get to shows. So, with that caveat, I do have a perspective on CAC. I mostly collect older, somewhat rare coins. Pre-civil war coins, most graded higher VF to lower AU. With old, circulated coins - pieces that vary a lot in terms of quality within grades, CAC has been very useful to me. About 60% of what I own have stickers and about half of those I sent in myself. I do have one coin, a reasonably valuable one that I know failed to CAC as an XF40 but did CAC as a VF35. It's a lovely coin with quite a lot of honest circulation and I don't think it's ever been messed with. I tend to agree that it is an A/B 35 but would have been a C/D as a 40. Among circulated coins, by and large CAC seems to favor coins with original surfaces This has been confirmed time and again by the coins I sent in that were stickered. Usually they are better looking, but not always. Sometimes it surprises me, but then original surfaces are not always better looking. I have a few that I was surprised they didn't sticker and a few I was surprised they did - but mostly I see consistency there. So .... Just the point that among older circulated coins CAC stickers may be more relevant and helpful than in discerning the differences between MS63, 64 or 65 more common coins. With old circulated coins there may be more opportunity for quality variation within a grade. For me, although I know it has an impact on marketability, it's less interesting when considering the differences within MS grades. I can tell you this - from time to time I've bought something that fit into my collection(s) at what I thought was a great price (i.e. well below the price guides and auction records), sent it to CAC and got a sticker. That, friends is a little like hitting the lottery![/QUOTE]
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