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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 482413, member: 1674&quot;]I think you misunderstood what CAC means.&nbsp; You assumed it meant good eye appeal and that simply isn&#039;t true.&nbsp; What it means is that a very talented grader or two has reviewed the coin and they agree that it isn&#039;t overgraded.&nbsp; People are assuming that the CAC sticker means the coin is superior in some way to other properly graded pieces and this simply isn&#039;t true; the goal of CAC is to protect buyers from overgraded coins, not to pick so called &quot;PQ&quot; coins out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing to remember is that originality is one of the things that a number of the CAC people prize.&nbsp; This means that a coin with average (or less) eye appeal that clearly has fully original surfaces is less likely to be down graded for what the normal collector would deem to be a negative factor that you might suspect.&nbsp; Alternatively pure white classic coins (that almost arruredly have been dipped at some point) are generally not given as much leeway because of their obvious lack of originality.&nbsp; This holds true for gold coins too.&nbsp; A gold coin with some toning due to copper on the surface will be regarded as more original than a coin that has had the copper spots removed, even though the prices in the market pay a discounted price for gold that is spotted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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