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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7866720, member: 10461&quot;]No green bean?&nbsp; Eh, so what.&nbsp; It&#039;s still a lovely MS SLQ.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=115232]@SensibleSal66[/USER] - to get a CAC sticker, a coin needs to be considered high-end for the assigned grade, by CAC.&nbsp; If they consider it to be, they give it a green sticker (the &quot;green bean&quot;).&nbsp; If they actually consider it undergraded by at least one full grade, they give it the coveted <i>gold</i> sticker.</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s the hoopla?&nbsp; I think you&#039;ve nailed it there.&nbsp; It&#039;s hoopla.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, <i>mostly</i>. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s someone grading the graders, is all.&nbsp; Yet another opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mind you, I&#039;m not suggesting CAC isn&#039;t a professional outfit- it is- and is very well respected in the marketplace.&nbsp; And it <i>does</i> matter for something, when one is dealing with the high-end, deep-pockets stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the stuff that mortals like you and I collect, I don&#039;t personally think it makes all that much difference.&nbsp; I&#039;ve owned two or three CAC coins that I bought with the stickers on them, but have never submitted any of my others to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The folks who insist upon having stickers on their slabs?&nbsp; More power to &#039;em.&nbsp; To me, though, those little green bean stickers are nice to have, but not all that important.&nbsp; (Not so much that I&#039;d pay extra money for them, in other words.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my humble opinion.&nbsp; If I collected Mint State Flowing Hair coinage, I might have an entirely different opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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