Perhaps a newbie question: I have a coin graded by ANA & PNG with a hologram on the back with ANA in one corner, & PNG in the other (The picture would not come out well). I know PNG now uses NGC. Is this a precurser to NGC (this coin was graded quite a long time ago) or some other type of grading system/company? Thanks.
I think if you look closer you will see who actually slabbed the coin. PNG and the ANA only endorse the grading company. They didn't slab it. edit - there is a possibilty that you have one of the very early ANACS slabs. Is the slab quite small with a white insert ?
It sounds to me like he probably has an ANACS 11 slab the first slabs that ANACS used although his describing the ANA and PNG logos as being in the corners sounds a lot like one of the recent NGC slabs. Does it look like this (Sorry image upside down) Or more like this? If it looks like this, then I want it.
As has been mentioned, PNG is not a grading service - it is a dealer organization. Here is a link to their website: http://www.pngdealers.com/
But at one time PNG DID have their own authentication/grading service from 1970 til at least some time in 1984. It used photocertificates and they had two different varieties of certificate. And that that top photo is the first ANACS slab variety used from late 1989 to early 1990 when the ANA sold ANACS to Amos Press.
