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How can a coin like this get a green sticker from CAC

robbylu52robbylu52 Posts: 287 ✭✭✭

How in the world did this coin earn a green sticker from CAC. I thought CAC is supposed to only sticker high end for the grade coins. I would not buy this coin at all.

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    MasonGMasonG Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @robbylu52 said:
    67-68 should be incredible looking

    From this website:

    MS67: Very well struck with minor imperfections visible without magnification.
    MS68: Only the slightest weakness in strike with a few tiny imperfections barely visible.

    @robbylu52 said:
    Really mean a 66+ should have very nice eye appeal and almost no visible marks to the collectors naked eye without a glass.

    It appears the problem is that your grading scale does not match PCGS's.

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    hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 11, 2021 6:46PM

    @MasonG said:

    @Aotearoa said:

    @robbylu52 said:
    I am not a troll...

    According to whose definition?

    Should be easy enough to tell, if he'd just post his picture. :#

    I don't think Aotearoa will post a pic of himself.

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    jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 41,359 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MasonG said:

    @robbylu52 said:
    67-68 should be incredible looking

    From this website:

    MS67: Very well struck with minor imperfections visible without magnification.
    MS68: Only the slightest weakness in strike with a few tiny imperfections barely visible.

    @robbylu52 said:
    Really mean a 66+ should have very nice eye appeal and almost no visible marks to the collectors naked eye without a glass.

    It appears the problem is that your grading scale does not match PCGS's.

    I think the problem is that he expects PCGS and CAC to move to his standard rather than the other way around.

    I personally HATE calling 3/4 horn Buff nickels VF. But it would be foolish of me to not recognize what the accepted guidelines are and insist that a PCGS CAC VF coin without a full horn should be re-evaluated.

    No one has to buy a coin they don't like. But personal standards are simply NOT market trends.

    All comments reflect the opinion of the author, even when irrefutably accurate.

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    robbylu52robbylu52 Posts: 287 ✭✭✭

    @cheezhed said:

    @robbylu52 said:

    What are we supposed to ascertain from that pic? The cheek is black.

    @cheezhed said:

    @robbylu52 said:

    What are we supposed to ascertain from that pic? The cheek is black.

    Unfortunate lighting issue with that photo.

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    AotearoaAotearoa Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @hammer1 said:

    @MasonG said:

    @Aotearoa said:

    @robbylu52 said:
    I am not a troll...

    According to whose definition?

    Should be easy enough to tell, if he'd just post his picture. :#

    I don't think Aotearoa will post a pic of himself.

    You're right. Copyright rules prevent me from doing so.

    Smitten with DBLCs.

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    Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 9,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 12, 2021 7:04AM

    Everybody knows Irregardless of grade / sticker low end coins don’t or struggle get all the money if one is even able move them at all. So the coin in question subject of this thread definitely would not be a good buy. My advice to its owner - go sell it to him (JA). I have 65 graded coins that beat it to pieces lol.

    It’s the converse of me telling some low baller off the bourse “well go find one then.”

    Investor
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    MFeldMFeld Posts: 16,652 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Cougar1978 said:
    Everybody knows Irregardless of grade / sticker low end coins don’t or struggle get all the money if one is even able move them at all. So the coin in question subject of this thread definitely would not be a good buy. My advice to its owner - go sell it to him (JA). I have 65 graded coins that beat it to pieces lol.

    It’s the converse of me telling some low baller off the bourse “well go find one then.”

    Your advice is moot. The coin is being auctioned and based on the last price I saw, it was already bid up to what many would say "all the money".

    Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.

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    ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 12, 2021 7:26AM

    PUT YOURSELF IN THE SHOES OF THE CONSIGNOR

    KNOWING THE FORUM "RULE" AGAINST KNOCKING AN PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN COIN IN A PENDING AUCTION, ANYONE CONTINUING THIS DISCUSSION OWES AN APOLOGY TO DLRC FOR ENABLING THIS UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
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    mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 7,015 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 12, 2021 8:44AM

    MS 65 Merc that would put the coin pictured to shame

    Right. The coin we have no picture of to look at.

    The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
    Albert Einstein (14 March 1879--18 April 1955)

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    robbylu52robbylu52 Posts: 287 ✭✭✭

    @ColonelJessup said:
    PUT YOURSELF IN THE SHOES OF THE CONSIGNOR

    KNOWING THE FORUM "RULE" AGAINST KNOCKING AN PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN COIN IN A PENDING AUCTION, ANYONE CONTINUING THIS DISCUSSION OWES AN APOLOGY TO DLRC FOR ENABLING THIS UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR

    This has been blown out of proportion. Name above photographed coin posted inadvertently by accident. Coin was only a $100 value not a big important auction piece. No major damage.

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    robbylu52robbylu52 Posts: 287 ✭✭✭

    @mr1874 said:
    MS 65 Merc that would put the coin pictured to shame

    Right. The coin we have no picture of to look at.

    @mr1874 said:
    MS 65 Merc that would put the coin pictured to shame

    Right. The coin we have no picture of to look at.

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