Certain dealers whom I know are suspicious of almost all auction coins, thinking them blatantly or subtly problematic.
Every one of these 36 coins recently came from one of the big four auction houses. Nothing valuable, as our firm will retail the whole group for around $80,000, which is not even the cost of one of many of Legend's recently auctioned pieces.
But 11 of the 36 beaned. So much for the theory that auction houses send in every $1,000-plus coin. For two of the coins, I requested gold stickers but had to settle for greens.
I wish that I knew CAC's formula. To me, it is more valuable than the recipe for KFC Original.
Regardless of the approval percentage, sending coins to CAC is the most fun that I have ever had gambling on anything.
By the way, the nine business day turnaround is quite respectable compared to that of the TPG's.
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With that said, for my four coin Twenty Cent business strike set, I picked up (as a filler as I wait to find the right coin in a higher grade with a CAC) an 1876 MS61. There are 63 coins in this date graded MS61 (28 by PCGS and 35 by NGC), but this is the ONLY one with a CAC!
The coin in hand looks even nicer than the photos:
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Another member here used it a few weeks ago and wam*#'bam...gone.
I am assuming that it is an IT thing, that flags the word when used in comment, but is not set up to auto-murder if used in the thread title?
Anyway; ATTICA ATTICA ATTICA!!!.
Otherwise, I am going to d(&#@ this thread every darn day.
Most dealers maintain customer want lists, so one might think that truly choice coins get snatched up immediately. Our firm does not even need to advertise many high quality coins because we have want list buyers for them.
But as someone who likes to inspect and analyze data before he decides on its utility, such simplistic and incomplete information makes your report a waste of time. It lacks critical details.
dreckhas been declared unutterable on this Forum. Thank you @CAC_TeamThis rule was established in its early days when Laura Sperber of Legend, who introduced this word into the numismatic lexicon as a classification of being of quality insufficient to satisfy her market goals, used it in advertising. Her continued insistence on using this pejorative, the Yiddish work for feces, appeared to entitle others to use this term: to normalize it. Enough peoples' stomachs were turned that awareness was raised. Her lack of nuance was, to this seasoned observer, astonishing. She makes many people upset, but likely more happy. ROFLMAO
Having been around Yiddish speakers since birth, I can tell you the term is never used without a snarl imbedded in it.
Where is a good source for complete up to date population reports?
Where is a good source for complete up to date population reports?
That was probably graded when they put a 64 on my Seated Dollar that ended up a 66 CAC!
That is one of the very few ms 61 coins that I have ever seen, and perhaps the best!
Where is a good source for complete up to date population reports?
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Thanks. While the link posted by @Catbert is accurate as PCGS CoinFacts shows Pop data, a more useful way of getting pop data for PCGS is to just go to their home page, and at the very top click on Pop Report. For NGC, from their home page go to the “hamburger” menu in the upper left corner, go to “Resources”, then to NGC Census. These sites are updated daily. However, pop results are mostly artificially too high, due to crack outs that get resubmitted.
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