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<p>[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 405720, member: 246"]Yep, I think it is less than 1% that are aware of CAC. A large percentage of the "collector" market is US Mint purchases. You think the typical Mint buyer knows about CAC? Many other people buy only from local shops and do not use the internet for coin purchases. You'd also be stunned to know how many collectors come into coin shops and have no knowledge about slabs and they've been around 22 years!</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a look at eBay. Right now there are 288 CAC coins on eBay. Exclude the Heritage Auction spam and there are a grand total of 12 coins. That's out of over 130,000 listings in the US coin section. You think the average buyer is going to run across one of these? Kind of puts that 5% of the market number to shame. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps there is an agenda by the backers of CAC to promote it and the resistance you see is reasoning of collectors who see this for the disturbing idea it really is?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 405720, member: 246"]Yep, I think it is less than 1% that are aware of CAC. A large percentage of the "collector" market is US Mint purchases. You think the typical Mint buyer knows about CAC? Many other people buy only from local shops and do not use the internet for coin purchases. You'd also be stunned to know how many collectors come into coin shops and have no knowledge about slabs and they've been around 22 years! Take a look at eBay. Right now there are 288 CAC coins on eBay. Exclude the Heritage Auction spam and there are a grand total of 12 coins. That's out of over 130,000 listings in the US coin section. You think the average buyer is going to run across one of these? Kind of puts that 5% of the market number to shame. :) Perhaps there is an agenda by the backers of CAC to promote it and the resistance you see is reasoning of collectors who see this for the disturbing idea it really is?[/QUOTE]
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