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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 405836, member: 15309&quot;]NPCoin,</p><p><br /></p><p>Your post is very prophetic, but I doubt that the CAC will cause the complete collapse of the numismatic market.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think that the CAC has an ulterior motive.&nbsp; I think John Albanese sincerely wants to create a sight unseen market and wants to be compensated for creating it.&nbsp; It appears that most collectors/dealers have allowed their own cynicism to convince them that the CAC is simply a scam perpetrated with only one purpose in mind, to take their money.&nbsp; With this closed minded approach, the CAC will most likely not survive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally have already benefited by the creation of the CAC.&nbsp; Shortly after the CAC&#039;s inception, I bid on a 1942-P NGC PF66 CAMEO Jefferson War Nickel in a Heritage signature sale.&nbsp; If you are not aware, CAMEO proofs from 1936-1942 are exceedingly rare for all denominations and the 1942-P Jefferson Nickel is no exception.&nbsp; There are currently only 9 such graded examples in existence in all grades.&nbsp; However, the price difference between the CAMEO and non-cameo coin is over $2,000.&nbsp; That meant if NGC mistakenly awarded the coin a CAMEO designation, the buyer of the coin was basically SOL.&nbsp; Furthermore, the photo provided by Heritage was terrible and called the CAMEO designation into question.&nbsp; If this coin did not have a CAC sticker, I would not have been able to even place a bid on a coin that I have wanted for years.&nbsp; Since the coin had the CAC sticker, I felt comfortable enough to endure the risk and place a strong bid.&nbsp; I ended up winning the lot and upon receipt, discovered that the CAMEO designation was well deserved and that Heritage&#039;s photo was basically garbage.&nbsp; In this case, the CAC did what it was designed to do.&nbsp; It created the ability for the consumer (me) to buy a coin sight unseen.</p><p><br /></p><p>With regards to your fear of counterfeit CAC stickers, the CAC provides and online database that you can check to see if the coin actually has been stickered.&nbsp; It is very easy to use, all you need is the certification # on the TPG slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have now divulged my personal reason for supporting the CAC.&nbsp; What I would like to hear from the opponents of the CAC is a specific case in which the CAC had a negative impact on their numismatic collecting experience, rather than broad philosophical objections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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