CoinTalk Members Share Views on CACG Grading; One Describes Problems With PCGS

This article summarizes a thread titled "CAC Coin Grading" on the collector forum CoinTalk. The posts are the members' own accounts and opinions, not verified facts. The source does not show the date of the thread.

The question

A member named Tater wrote that they had not submitted coins in a while and planned to submit some large cents for grade and attribution and some modern foreign gold. Tater said they were surprised that NGC was the most expensive, because PCGS had historically seemed to cost the most. Tater asked which services people were using and how their experience with CAC had been.

Views on CACG

Barney McRae wrote that they will buy coins in CAC slabs but will not pay more than other grading services get for the same mint and grade. They said they are not sending anything to CAC to slab.

ElishaCollectsForever wrote that CACG is the way to go for someone trying to get the most value out of submitted coins. The poster said they had never had a coin graded and did not know which service was most popular. They then gave these prices, without saying where or when they were recorded:

- 1926-D Lincoln cent, MS64 RB: $550 graded by NGC; $675 in the same grade by CACG (+$125) - 1870 Indian Head cent: AU53 graded by PCGS at $640; AU50 graded by CACG at $675 (+$35)

The poster wrote that the CACG coin has a lower grade but is still more expensive.

Cazador wrote that they have submitted a few coins to CACG and love the slabs. They said CACG is very strict on grading, which does not bother them because they want the brutal truth. They also wrote that they would send quite a few rare coins to CACG at the ANA Savannah convention the following week.

Reported problems with submissions

H8_modern wrote that their last two PCGS submissions were a disaster. The poster's account:

- The poster used the online submission form, which has limited options. - The poster did not know that a coin with a planchet flaw had to be listed as a mint error, which adds a little cost. - The poster was never contacted, and the coin received a details grade because of the planchet flaw. - The poster contacted PCGS while it still had the coin and was told the only way to correct it was to resubmit and pay all the fees. - The poster was not allowed to use the grading vouchers on the account because the coins were submitted under the "Economy" tier ($22) rather than the "Regular" tier ($45). Unused vouchers expired.

geekpryde wrote of "a similar sentiment and experience." The source does not show which post this replied to, and geekpryde did not name the grading company. The poster's first submission went well, but the latest had to go back twice before it was right. geekpryde did not renew and said they would check out CACG grading at some point.

Source: CoinTalk, "CAC Coin Grading."