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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2870510, member: 66&quot;]Ok the catalog numbers from the book for these varieties are:</p><p><br /></p><p>A ACG 23</p><p>B New&nbsp; has the front of ACG 26 and back of ACG 23</p><p>C ACG 20</p><p>D ACG 16a</p><p>E is either ACG 21 or 25&nbsp; Are the letters ACG in the bottom right corner raised or flat?</p><p>F ACG 26</p><p>G Either 21 or 25 same question as on E</p><p>H ACG 8</p><p>I New it would fit in between 12 and 12.5</p><p>J Not in book, in notes as 11.1</p><p>K Not in book, in notes between 10 and 11</p><p>L New would be just before ACG 12</p><p>M ACG 13</p><p>N This is an ACG shell but not an ACG slab.&nbsp; In the late 90&#039;s ACG was looking to expand their business and licensed their slab shells to a couple other companies.&nbsp; He would provide the shells and equipment for a fee and the other company could create their own grading service.&nbsp; This didn&#039;t last long because shells started being diverted to other companies that weren&#039;t paying fees to ACG.&nbsp; In 2002 ACG tried a different tack and created an encapsulation service.&nbsp; For a fee you could send coins to ACG and they would slab them in their shells under your company name at what ever grade you specified.&nbsp; They provided the encapsulation ONLY not authentication or grading was done by ACG.&nbsp; This slab is probably from a diverted shell.&nbsp; I have never seen this company before.&nbsp; If it had been a licensed company there probably would have been more of them and I would have seen them.</p><p><br /></p><p>ACG was the first company to do grades between the 11 MS grades, this was around 1986.&nbsp; The hobby at the time ridiculed the idea because everyone knew that it was impossible to grade so precisely that you would be able to tell that a coin was better than one MS grade but not a good as the next one.&nbsp; (Someone needs to explain that to PCGS, NGC, and CAC.)&nbsp; ACG bowed to public opinion and the .5 grades quickly ceased.&nbsp; They would not be seen again until Compugrade in 1991.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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