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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stujoe, post: 929, member: 11&quot;]Not quite if you read what they actually claim. As you state from their own promo, they&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to ACG...in 1976, The International Numismatic Society Authentication Bureau (INS) began certifying authenticity and grading coins for a fee.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then in 1979...ANACS, at that time the American Numismatic Association Certification Service (later sold to Amos and still called ANACS), began grading coins for a fee. They had been certifying authenticity since 1972.</p><p><br /></p><p>The standards were there (and in ANACS case codified) and applied by companies for a fee (certifying and grading) long before ACG came on the scene. AH may (or may not, I really don&#039;t know) have invented the modern slab but they by no means were the first in certifying coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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