CAC General Question

The sticker is on the outside. Opening a slab would void the certification, thus CAC can only place the sticker on the outside. Their website allows collectors to search and verify that the coin is indeed CAC approved. This is the only way to make sure the coin really is worthy. As for the colors: green means the coin is solidly graded, gold means that in CAC's opinion the coin is undergraded by at least 1 point. Gold stickers are very rare.

The two different stickers are news to me as well.
I have only one example, but as I am color blind I cannot tell if it is green or gold.
Will someone please post pictures of the two colors?
Maybe that will help me.

Matthew . . looks green to me & nice low mintage Barber. Just another example where mintage doesn't translate to price. Almost twice as many 1914-D cents but your dime costs less. I guess that's good for you as a Barber collector.

Gold or green sticker, I am happy with the coin.
It had die chips on the reverse. I did some research.
I submitted an article to the BCCS Journal of my findings.
It was published in the March issue.
We can be found at:

http://www.barbercoins.org/

Here is an excerpt:

Die Chips on the 1896 s Dime.

Early in 2011 I purchased an 1896 s dime. ... About six months later as I was studying The Complete Guide to Barber dimes I saw the following note:
"One die has chips on the corn ear and leaves below." David Lawrence ...
Well, I took yet another look at the dime and found something strange: "stuff" where there should not have been "stuff." I just had to do some research.
What I learned was the following:
There are three areas of interest about the dime: the right hand side of the ear [the kernels] of corn [subject to filling?], the area [filled!] between the two shucks of the ear of corn [which usually forms a clear ‘V' pattern], and on the oak leaf directly below the left shuck of the ear of corn. The latter is a three dimensional "blob" which looks like a left-handed boxing glove.

Sorry if this should be in a separate forum. Perhaps I should start one just for the Barber coins.




Note: this photo is available on the David Lawrence Rare Coins site and therefore should not infringe upon their rights. When it came to USING this photo in our Journal my editor got the OK from the son of David Lawrence.
The text, I wrote it and share it freely.