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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2599727, member: 112&quot;]Your question as asked, or at least the first part of it - when - I think can easily be answered. It was almost without a doubt in 1977 when the 1st edition of the ANA standards was published. As to what the actual coin was, well, given the standards that the only thing necessary was that it was nicer than MS65, it could have been almost anything. But yeah, I agree it would be interesting to actually know.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I think the truly pertinent or most interesting part of your question is a part you didn&#039;t ask - and that is given by whom ? That, having been asked, brings up another question - who would qualify as being a meaningful answer ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I rather doubt that a private individual would meet that qualification for the grades assigned to coins by private individuals were even more in question back then than they are today - for the most part anyway. But there probably were a few notable individuals, Bowers comes to mind as being an example, whose assigned grade would have had true meaning back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that, ANACS was the only game in town back then. And while I cannot point to a specific example of a coin having been assigned the 70 grade by them back then, I certainly have no doubt that such a coin, and almost certainly quite a few of them given the circumstances and existing standards, did exist.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mike, and this goes out to you too Insider, when I read the first posts made by you and Insider in this thread I even commented to myself that you were both saying the same thing. The problem was, at least in my mind, that neither one of you realized that due to previously established - shall we say, discordance - between the two of you. </p><p><br /></p><p>In other words if either or both of you had read what the other had written without jumping to conclusions based on personal feelings, and what I believe to be misguided personal feelings on both your parts, I&#039;m fairly confident that both of you would have realized that you were both saying the same thing just as I did. </p><p><br /></p><p>To tell ya the truth, I think that if both of you were to actually get to know one another that both of you would end up with considerable respect for the other, and possibly even friendship <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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