My first submission to CAC. Let's make it a contest and giveaway. Results are in.

bolivarshagnasty

CAC Contest
I've recently sent 10 coins to CAC for evaluation. They were received 7/14/20. The contest will involve determining what if any CAC sticker these coins will receive. From 1-10, assign passed, exceeded, not CAC. I will post the results when I get them. The closest will receive a prize package mailed to you. In the event of a tie, the first to respond with the correct or
closest answer will get the prize package. This contest will supersede my failure to host contests for my 5k and 6k
post count.
THE BOOTY.......

No Forrest Fenn treasure chest here but a good mix. Roll of 2005-D Bison Nickels, blank clad dime planchet,
1893 Columbian half, 2020 Walking with Liberty giveaway at this years FUN show. (seems like an eternity ago)

THE COINS.....
1. MS65RB

2. MS67 Attributed DDO

3. MS62

4. MS65

5. MS66

6. MS66

7. MS65

8. MS66

9. MS65

10. MS66

WaterSport

I hope you do we'll Mel!!
But FWIT...
1 Green Bean
2 No Sticker
3 Gold Sticker
4 No Sticker
5 Green Bean
6 No Sticker
7 Gold Sticker
8 Green Sticker
9 Green Sticker
10 Green Sticker

Mgarmy

1 ap
2ap
3 not cac
4 ap
5 -10 exceed

Smudge

3,4,5,8,9,10 pass
7 exceeds.

Nice coins.

Edit, good luck.

Kliao

1. Green Sticker
2. No sticker
3. No sticker
4. Green sticker
5. Green sticker
6. Green sticker
7. Green sticker
8. No sticker
9. Green sticker
10. Green sticker

Thanks for the chance!

amwldcoin

I'm going with 2 gold and 6 green.

bolivarshagnasty

@amwldcoin said:
I'm going with 2 gold and 6 green.

Which ones?

JasonGaming

I will go with...

All green beans.

Onastone

Easy Beans! All 1-10 passed~ Best of luck to you, beautiful coins!

JeffersonFrog

1. green
2. no
3. green
4. green
5. green
6. green
7. gold
8. green
9. green
10. green

Nice coins. Fun to play along, thanks.

AUandAG

All greens except the California is a gold, and the 1919 is not stickered.

bob

SimpleCollector

My thoughts
1 no sticker
2 no sticker
3 green sticker
4 green sticker
5 no sticker
6 no sticker
7 green sticker
8 no sticker
9 no sticker
10 green sticker

U1chicago

I'll guess 9 green stickers and the lone no sticker being the MS 66 Connecticut (Coin #6).

Best of luck and they all look like nice coins!

coin4sale

thanks for contest.

1,4 and 6-10 all CAC
others not ( 2,3,5)

coinbuf

Cool good luck all very nice coins

1) pass
2) pass
3) exceed
4) no
5) pass
6) no
7) exceed
8) exceed
9) exceed
10) pass

Pnies20

8 green 2 not CAC’d. 2 and 5 don’t make it. I really like that Stone Mountain.good group to send in!

No Headlights

All pass with a green sticker except number 2 which doesn’t pass.
Thanks for the opportunity
Good luck

CoinJunkie

Wow, great giveaway. I'm not sure how CAC feels about blast white commems, so I'm flying a little blind, but here goes:

1) green
2) green
3) not CAC
4) green
5) green
6) not CAC
7) not CAC
8) green
9) green
10) not CAC

Hope I'm wrong, and you get 10 stickers, mostly gold.

Thanks for the fun contest.

pursuitofliberty

Okay, what the heck ... nice group and I think you'll do well!!

1. Green
2. Missed
3. Gold
4. Green
5. Green
6. Green
7. Gold
8. Missed
9. Green
10. Missed

cameonut2011

Oregon in MS65 - Exceeded/gold sticker
Gold eagle - Not CAC
The rest - Passed/green stickers

joeykoins

Thanks for the chance.
1. Green s.
2. No sticker
3. Green s.
4. Gold s.
5. Green s.
6. No sticker
7. No sticker
8. Gold
9. Green s.
10. Green s.

panexpoguy

1. Not CAC
2. Not CAC
3. Passed
4. Passed
5. Passed
6. Not CAC
7. Passed
8. Passed
9. Passed
10. Not CAC

Good luck! CAC submissions are fun and educational and you will enjoy the process every time you submit.

coinlieutenant

All 10 green

ifthevamzarockin

Just for fun....thanks! If by some strange chance I win draw for alternate winner.

1. No
2. Green
3. Gold
4. Green
5. No
6. No
7. Green
8. No
9. Green
10. Green

1Mike1

1. Green
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. Green
6. No
7. Green
8. Gold
9. Green
10. No

Justacommeman

You have a good eye

This is your first submission so you probably sent in your best chances to sticker

You will do very well on this submission. Maybe all green with the Oregon going gold

m

1630Boston

Nice coins

1. green
2. not cac
3. green
4. green
5. green
6. green
7. gold
8. green
9. gold
10. green

keets

I think all the coins look pretty nice but there are two "puzzlers" for me: why an MS62 $10 and how in the heck does a guy who posts some stellar toned coins end up with blast white commems???

HashTag

I want to love #10 (Texas) the most but #7 (Oregon trail) OMG it’s beautiful! (Gold).

Mdcoincollector2003

1. Green
2. None
3. Green
4. Green
5. Green
6. Gold
7. Gold
8. Green
9. Green
10. Green

jedm

I see there's a Barber quarter in the stash you're giving away so... here goes:
8 Green
2 Gold
Beautiful examples every one of them!

shish

1. Green
2. No
3. No
4. Green
5. Green
6. Green
7. Gold
8. Green
9. Green
10. Green

Nice group!

JBN

1. Passed.
2. Passed.
3. Passed.
4. Not CAC.
5. Passed.
6. Passed
7. Passed.
8. Not CAC.
9. Passed.
10. Passed.

Wonderful coins. Excellent overall submission quality, IMHO.

bolivarshagnasty

Thanks everyone for the kind comments and optimism!

@keets said:
I think all the coins look pretty nice but there are two "puzzlers" for me: why an MS62 $10 and how in the heck does a guy who posts some stellar toned coins end up with blast white commems???

keets, I have the $10 Indian leftover from a 1909 mint set that I once had. Couldn't bear to part with it. As for the Commems, I would love to own some of those in color but the price is out of my league. Never understood the appeal of brown on a Commemorative.

@Justacommeman said:
You have a good eye

This is your first submission so you probably sent in your best chances to sticker

You will do very well on this submission. Maybe all green with the Oregon going gold

m

Thanks, I believe these 10 are the only ones I have left that qualify and don't already have a sticker. Have a lot of modern toners that don't qualify.

Jimnight

Wow ... they are all nice!

mcarney1173

1 passed
2 passed
3 passed
4 passed
5 not CAC
6 not CAC
7 passed
8 passed
9 not CAC
10 passed

Thanks for the opportunity. Looking forward to the results.

jwitten

1. pass
2. no
3. no
4. pass
5. no
6. pass
7. gold
8. no
9. pass
10. pass

ElKevvo

All are really nice coins...I'll say they all sticker with a couple of golds. I like the commems!

1 Green
2 Green
3 Green
4 Gold
5 Green
6 Green
7 Gold
8 Green
9 Green
10 Green

K

bolivarshagnasty

The results are in. Seven out of ten with one exceed. No one really came close to getting them all right. I was not surprised by the exceed, and I'll review that further down the page with my thoughts. The winner of the giveaway is u1chicago with 7 correct. He guessed 9 green beans with the Connecticut not beaning. "Close but no cigar" honorable mentions, Watersport, JasonGaming, Onastone, and Au Ag all with 6 correct.

My thoughts......
1. As mentioned above, I was not surprised by the exceed on this one. I have had that coin for 6 or more years and always thought it should be in a 66RB holder.
2. I was unsure if this would bean with the contact mark at the bottom of the wheat stalks. This is a big win as it is the only (pop 1) example graded in 67.
3. To be honest, this one had a marginal chance and I knew it before hand. What is not seen in the photo is a slight smear at the hairline. Everything else about the coins screams a higher graded but I understand that CAC has to protect their brand by identifying these problems and not stickering.
4. It's a nice Bay Bridge but the 65 grade includes a mark at the rear haunches of the bear. Once again, CAC is identifying issues for their clients by not stickering.
5. I really thought the Boone might exceed sticker. It has a number of frost breaks on the obverse but not much in the way of contact marks. One of those coins that when you receive, you think it is undergraded.
6. I looked at a ton of Connecticut Commems and thought this one had a great look. The high points on the eagles reverse is a target for contact marks and this one I felt was better than most. Disappointed in this result.
7. Like the Connecticut, this San Diego has a few contact marks in 66 but I guess the above average strike on the tower put this one over the top for a bean.
8. This one was a head scratcher for me. The coin has blazing luster with few marks. Thought it was a shoe in for an exceed. The bar must be set pretty high for a common Commem like this one.
9. Not much to say on the Texas, a nice 66 with a few scattered marks earned a bean.
10. In the thread, there were a number of folks who thought the Oregon was an exceed. This was the one coin I thought was a lock to exceed. The luster is off the charts. Well struck and few marks. Disappointed even though it earned a green bean.

Thanks to everyone who participated and please share your thoughts if you wish. I'll contact u1chicago for a shipping address. Take care and stay healthy out there.

CoinJunkie

Congrats to the winner and also to the OP for a decent set of results! I actually got 6 correct, and I'll give myself an extra half a point for saying #1 should have gotten a green.

EDIT: It's shoo-in, in case you care.

Smudge

Congrats to the winner. Thanks for the contest. Congrats on the results, well done.

Onastone

Congrats @U1chicago and thanks for the chance @bolivarshagnasty !! What a great giveaway! And thanks for sharing pics of your choice coins!!!! My fave in that group is #7, glad it passed!!!

MedalCollector

Nice submission. Thanks for sharing in the fun!

logger7

Well worth the submission especially if you only pay for the coins that actually get the green bean as the average success rate is around 40%. I'm assuming the pop 1 on the steel cent is the ddo. With the defects on many of the steel cents not sure that is really that rare.

coinbuf

Congrats to the winner, a couple of surprises but a nice submission.

cameonut2011

I’m surprised that the Oregon didn’t gold bean. If it ever ended up in a 66 holder, I think it would or at least should green bean.

WaterSport

I think that was a good submission with good results. Thanks for making it public.

WS

joeykoins

Congrats to the winner! All good turn outs

oih82w8

Nice turnout! Great looking coin submission!

1Mike1

seems 1 and 4 were the most difficult to predict. Nobody guessed number 1 would go gold and only 4 guessed number 4 would not pass.

1630Boston

I got 3 out of 10...................not going to be working for CAC anytime soon I guess