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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1420828, member: 24091&quot;]I have about a dozen coins in ANACS holders, all of them the little white type from some years back. The grades are accurate in my opinion, and well within what NGC or PCGS would have considered as an appropriate grade for the coin at the time it was slabbed.&nbsp; I highly doubt the value of the coin will be lowered by anything eBay has to say about which grading services are prefered.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one time, in the beginning at least, ICG graded coins were more conservatively graded than any of the other services, NGC and PCGS included. But when that didn&#039;t seem to gain them much traction in the market place it was taken as a green light by NGC and PCGS to let their own standards relax slightly in an effort to encourage resubmissions. Whether it was a matter of documented internal policy, no one on the outside can say. But it&#039;s pretty self-evident that the grading criteria has in fact changed over the last 10 years, and it has been most pronounced (in my opinion) in grades between VF30 and AU53, though to be sure the mint state grades have drifted a little too. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have not paid enough attention to the newer ANACS holders to comment on the grading. However, the holder itself simply looks cheap in my opinion. They would have been far better off to have retained the original holder and simply increased its dimensions. When viewed from the edge (especially) the old ANACS holders looked nice, and appeared to be made from better plastic than what was found in any of the other non-PCGS or non-NGC holders out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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