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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 2820317, member: 77639&quot;]Posted below are pics of an ANACS certificate for a double eagle I owned in the 1980&#039;s.&nbsp; Strike was given a separate evaluation.&nbsp; Biggest problem with these certificates was the generation of multiple certificates from the same coin and then selling lesser quality coins with the duplicate certificates.&nbsp; Another huge problem was how to market something like this ... front and back grades by four different graders plus verbal designations of luster, eye appeal, strike and surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>Slabs with a single, simple grade put a stop to the duplicate fraud scheme and greatly improved the ability to market coins.&nbsp; Most of us here know you have to look at the coin and not buy based on just the slab label.&nbsp; However, adding more and more qualifiers to the grade is leading back into the bad old days of needing a paragraph to market a coin but still not removing the need to look at the coin itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, the coin was later submitted to PCGS.&nbsp; Guess the grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]662052[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]662054[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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