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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 1504429, member: 11854&quot;]&quot;- good for the grade according to who ? Who is doing the deciding that the coin is good for the grade ?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>For me this is an easy answer; I grade all coins as if they were raw and, if I value the coin at or greater than the level it would cost to obtain it and I want it, then I purchase it for my collection or inventory. Of course, when one purchases a coin in a PCGS holder then that coin should be good for the grade <i>according to PCGS. </i>Similarly, a coin in an NGC holder should be good for the grade <i>according to NGC. </i>As an extension of this, a coin with a CAC sticker on the holder should be good for the grade <i>according to CAC as well as the TPG that encapsulated the coin. </i>None of these &quot;thumbs up&quot;; by PCGS, NGC or CAC, will get a coin past me and into my collection if I do not like the coin myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>The three coins that I had rejected by CAC included a proof copper with some carbonized crud along the rim where CAC thought the carbonized crud was too much, a toned silver with rather unusual toning where CAC thought the toning might be suspect and a toned silver that looked okay to me where CAC thought there might have been minor surgery done on one portion of the coin. The CAC parameters for carboninzed crud on copper and unusual toning on silver were a slight bit different than mine while the CAC decision of minor surgery on one coin was a complete surprise. Conversely, those CAC green sticker coins that I had seen on the bourse and did not like were coins that had skin a bit too thin and color a bit too light for their level of circulation and their age while the gold sticker CAC coin that I thought should have been rejected outright was a hairlined classic proof with a low proof grade that CAC thought deserved a higher grade and I thought should have been rejected as cleaned since the hairlines were too pronounced, in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless, this is all okay since I am not forced to purchase a coin with a CAC sticker if I do not like the eye appeal, originality, grade or price just as I am not forced to purchase a coin encapsulated by PCGS or NGC for the same reasons or to purchase a raw coin that falls short of my standards of value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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