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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1989140, member: 29751&quot;]I think this thread is a bit misled.&nbsp; Most of us who don&#039;t really give two spits about CAC coins don&#039;t have that opinion because we see oodles of CACed coins out there that we don&#039;t agree with.&nbsp; I personally don&#039;t pay a single bit of attention to a CAC sticker because:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) I don&#039;t think it is magical like some people apparently do -- I collect coins to <b><u>my</u></b> standards, not those of John Albanese.&nbsp; Yes, his is another &quot;big wig&quot; opinion, but the vast majority of slabbed coins in the marketplace have not been seen by JA, so who cares. That being said, I won&#039;t turn down a CACed coin that&#039;s properly priced and meets my standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) The supposed meaning of a CAC sticker being an A/B coin, is, in my opinion, misleading.&nbsp; The real purpose of the sticker is a stamp of approval for a coin that JA is willing to purchase and/or trade on his large coin exchanges.&nbsp; The A/B explanation seems to be a post-hoc lay-mans explanation that was made up to try to clarify for gullible people what CAC means.&nbsp; It means JA likes the coin and would let it sell on his (for profit) coin exchanges.&nbsp; Think of the CAC sticker as a &quot;some dealers will trade this coin as a trinket without even looking at the coin&quot; sticker.&nbsp; IF you think it means more than that, you&#039;re fooling yourself.</p><p><br /></p><p>3)&nbsp; It is advantageous for CAC to limit the number of submitted coins that they sticker.&nbsp; If they stickered too many coins, the market would not differentiate them in any way from simply NGC and PCGS graded coins.&nbsp; It is a bit of a strange marketing ploy/scheme.&nbsp; As an analogy: Would you pay a professional to work on your car, then take your car to another dealership and have them give their stamp of approval?&nbsp; Do you pay a professional to replace your home&#039;s roof, then have another local company come over and inspect it and then put their sign in your front yard?&nbsp; It&#039;s just a silly and somewhat &quot;self-aggrandizing&quot; business concept in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>In summary, if you want to focus your collecting on CAC-ed coins, more power to you.&nbsp; But, you&#039;re missing out on a LOT of wonderful coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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