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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Copper56, post: 2347195, member: 74010&quot;]Are all ANACS Slabs &quot;Worthless&quot;?&nbsp; &quot;ANACS is not as well respected as NGC or PCGS&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find no Slab to be worthless. I also find it difficult to assign respect for any of the TPG service&#039;s if the criteria is how accurate and consistent their grading is. We are all graders whither or not we claim to be. We disagree with the grade on a slab every time it comes back in a weaker grade than we hoped it to be. We compare same date coins slabbed by different services, and we compare grades of same date coins slabbed by the same TPGer.&nbsp; What we find is, nothing is ever constant. No matter the service we may find a much more accurately graded coin in an ANACS, or PCGS, or ICG or NGC slab,&nbsp; yet, because of the build up hype and political interference we have been conditioned to believe the &quot;top two&quot; are the only way to go if we are to ever sell them for top dollar. What we believe is not always the truth. The only winners are the dealers who push the holder and the loser is the collector who falls for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are into coins for fun and also future investment, then you must buy the coin every time. Somewhere in the future the graders may run out of ways to &quot;re-holder&quot; our coins and, hopefully, there will emerge a real industry standard that we can all agree on. (But not likely) At the very least, accuracy in identifying a coins true particulars should never be left to amateurs. Grading on the other hand will always be in the eye of the owner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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