Toughest coin types to pass muster with cac?
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What are the toughest coin series to get a cac sticker? Cents, from half cents to 2 cent pieces, copper nickel 3 cent coins, silver 3, H10c coins and dimes, and other silver coins especially dollars? Are gold coins generally easier to get the cac sticker on?
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Gold can be tough but in my very, very limited experience seated material is the toughest. I haven't looked at every issue's population reports but I believe that percentage stickered versus known population mostly backs that up as well.
Saints.
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Everyone swears it’s gold, but I haven’t had problems with gold at all. Copper is tougher IMHO.
Mercury Dimes!
If you’re asking about the entire grade range for different types and not just particular grades within a given type (such as Saints graded 65 and higher), my first thoughts are Bust and Seated dollars.
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Ike’s, Saints and Franklins.
I've only sent them relatively low value coins so I can't speak to the other end of the market but I'd say they like well struck examples of everything they review. Plus means nothing to them so don't think that's a slam dunk and great eye appeal never hurts.
For the record I've heard they're tough on Saints.
From conversations I have had with the folks at CAC, they have anecdotally mentioned early Federal silver. However, nothing specific was mentioned beyond that and individual, highly niche areas beyond that might be tougher.
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Glad no one said Barbers
A Barber Quartet is made up of Nickels, Dimes, Quarters, and Halves.
Hands down moderns.
John Albanese has a reputation for being pretty tough on gold coins, especially those which were liberally graded at times in the past like common Saints. For a while, none of the 1908 No Motto Wells Fargo coins had a CAC sticker thought that is no longer the case.
A good source for more on this topic would be the CAC forums themselves.
Do/did they even look at moderns ?
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Hands down moderns.
Your joke is mostly correct.
Answer: Mint State Ikes which they have graded for ages already.
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C coins fail at CAC. There are no easy answers in RCI - YMMV.