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Does a CAC green sticker equal A "Plus" from PCGS or NGC?

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  • JJSingletonJJSingleton Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not in my eyes, but I do recognize that if I like a CAC coin it may cost me a few more dollars.

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  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,191 ✭✭✭✭
    This would make thread number 100 on this topic... image

    Do a quick advanced search on your question and I'm sure you'll find lots of opinions.
    Lurking and learning since 2010. Full-time professional numismatist based in SoCal.
  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    I had to vote the Do Not Care option
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My opinion is to scrape the sticker off.

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  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,765 ✭✭✭✭✭
    CAC sticker IMO simply means they see the coin as an A or B coin (not C) for that grade (this may not always match my opinion of the coin, the trump card). This does not equal a plus grade: CAC is not a grading service. Pricing of rare coins is a subjective process based on ones grading skills and knowledge of the market (premiums rainbow toned coins will bring for instance). It can take considerable market presence buying, selling, and submitting coins to develop these skills - bourse room, shop, etc.

    I definitely will price a PQ coin higher (sticker, plus grade or not) than an average quality coin. Such pricing is a subjective call. There are many times I had two coins of say the same issue and TPG grade, etc. One may have been a $160 coin and the other a $200 coin.
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The CAC sticker means what the CAC sticker means, and any effort to ascribe other qualities, attributes, or values is simply not generalizable.

    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    CAC does not mean much to me, though the customers like it and will pay a premium.

    To me the plus on a PCGS coin trumps the sticker. On NGC coins I ignore the plus altogether. Stars on the other hand....
  • copperhuntercopperhunter Posts: 925 ✭✭✭
    It depends on which day of the week it is....
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  • DollarAfterDollarDollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭✭✭



    You forgot to include the "exceeds" a + option. That's the fact Jack.






























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  • IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭
    A green CAC sticker means that CAC wants to buy the coin at that grade, should that option arise. A plus should mean
    that the coin nearly makes the next grade up (doesn't always work out that way, in my humble opinion). In the world
    of grading and pricing, both are more subjective than most collectors would like.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As with any sticker, label or mark, it simply is an opinion. Cheers, RickO

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