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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2292508, member: 66&quot;]The OP coin is an ACG 8.&nbsp; Des Moines was a &quot;branch office&quot; that opened in 1986.&nbsp; It did not operate long and produced two varieties of holder, this one and an earlier variety (ACG 7) that used a dot matrix printer and did not have the registered symbol on the back label.</p><p><br /></p><p>ACG did have either one or two branch offices in California, one in San Francisco and one in Long Beach.&nbsp; i don&#039;t know if these were two different offices or if it was the same office and it changed locations.&nbsp; There is also a variety of AGC Slab that just says Accugrade WEST and one that says Accugrade CALIFORNIA.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know which office produced those or if it was a completely different office.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of the branch offices remained in business for long, probably no later than 1988.</p><p><br /></p><p>And say what you will, Alan Hagar was definitely an innovator in the industry at the time.&nbsp; He pioneered slabbing, photoslabs, commercial grading, decimal point grades (the precursor to todays + grade), pop reports and possibly some other things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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