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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26778735, member: 101855&quot;]As a veteran collector, I think that a properly grade AU-58 is worth as much or more than a properly graded, but ugly, MS-60 or 61. It’s been like that since I really got into early U.S. coins in the early 1980s. The trouble is grade-flation has “degraded” the AU-58 grade. Now AU-55 or even the new grade 53 sometimes sneaks into the holders. </p><p><br /></p><p>The CAC slabs are conservatively graded from what I have seen, but I’ve seen high asking prices for them too. You have to decide if the higher price is really worth it. </p><p><br /></p><p>The CAC sticker is right the vast majority of the time, but it too has followed the grade-flation on some of the CAC approved slabs. Once more, there is no fool proof substitute for knowing how to grade coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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