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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1988163, member: 112&quot;]Why ? Because to some originality means more than a higher grade. You see it&#039;s not so much the CAC sticker that matters, it&#039;s the fact that the coin, even though it&#039;s in a lower grade, hasn&#039;t been messed with, hasn&#039;t been dipped, or cleaned (conserved if you prefer that word).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your first sentence, that I underlined, is the key as to why CAC is such a success. And it has nothing to do with whether the grade is high or low, a lower grade is all some people can afford. The thing that matters is that another party, CAC, whose reputation carries enough weight that it matters, has agreed or approved of with the grade assigned by the TPG.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it&#039;s not just some, there are so many people out there that are absolutely convinced that the TPGs routinely overgrade coins that yes, they do need somebody else to tell them the grade of this given coin is OK. They need that reassurance because they have lost confidence in the TPGs themselves. And that&#039;s why the grade whether it&#039;s a G4 or an MS66 doesn&#039;t matter, the person buying the coin still needs the reassurance that the grade is good.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that said, can you still go out and find good for the grade coins in TPG slabs without the CAC sticker, or even find raw examples as you suggested ? Yes, you absolutely can. But there are very few people who have enough confidence in their own abilities to attempt to do that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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