A little help with DCAM

jmj3esq

Can anyone please provide me with a little info as to what exactly CAM/DCAM means. When I submit a coin that I feel is DCAM do I list this on the submission form or is it entirely up to the TPG to make this decision? I ask because I have a nice 1964 Proof Kennedy w/ accented hair that I would like to submit. I cannot tell if it is CAM or DCAM or niether. Please help.

19Lyds

Post a pic and Russ will help you out.

jmj3esq

No can do. First off im at work and secondly I dont have the equipment to take a picture worth looking at.

100proof1957

Russ dont need much of a picture !

perfectstrike

When you submit a proof to PCGS, always use the number without a designation.

CAM/DCAM refers to the amount of contrast between the frost on the devices/letters and the fields. If the fields don't have the deep mirror clarity for several reflections, a designation isn't likely. If the frost has more than hairline breaks CAM/DCAM is difficult. Specific series and years have specific weak points. I'm not sure about Kennedy or I could offer specifics. Maybe Russ will chime in.

David

Russ

This is a cameo Accented Hair:



This is a deep cameo Accented Hair:



Russ, NCNE

pontiacinf

<< <i>This is a cameo Accented Hair:



This is a deep cameo Accented Hair:



Russ, NCNE >>



well said!

mnmcoin

Look at the frost of the devices (of both sides), if it is solid white (no gray or black thorought even when tilted) with no breaks and the mirrors are jet deep black with no luster breaks then you have a shot (I say shot only the way PCGS is grading) at PCGS for Dcam. If it has the same whiteness with just a little dimness to the white, slightly grayish or black, again with no breaks either in the frost or mirrors, then you have a shot at cameo at PCGS.

Russ's pic do a very good job of showing this.

morris <><

jmj3esq

I dont think my 1964 Accented Hair has a chance at either. Should I grade it anyway or put it in my Dansco?

Burks

Ah now I understand the difference. Always been wondering exactly what the difference was. Deciding if the coin was a cameo or not was easy, CAM vs DCAM vs UCAM wasn't.

Coinhusker1

<< <i>I dont think my 1964 Accented Hair has a chance at either. Should I grade it anyway or put it in my Dansco? >>



Put it in your Dansco -- it may tone nice rainbow colors after a few years.

TorinoCobra71

One of these Days, Russ is gonna sell that 69-S Kennedy that "has deep Mondo Frost that you can Dip with a spoon!"

TorinoCobra71

"The Seven that should have been an eight......."

Myqqy

Should I grade it anyway or put it in my Dansco?

Put it in the dansco! Use the grading fee money towards getting a new coin.....