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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1421961, member: 15929&quot;]Correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS is a Grading Company that only grades and attributes coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>NGC and PCGS are more than just grading companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each Company has a network of Authorized Dealers which can submit coins in bulk for special Labels such as First Strike (Early Release), 40th Anniversary Lables, Portrait Labels, Signature Labels, First Day of Issue Labels, etc.) Of course ANACS does this as well for the TV Folks but I think this is by pre-arranged contract. I do not know for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both NCG and PCGS have levels of &quot;Collector&#039;s&quot; clubs which allow individuals to submit coins for grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS and NGC work hard to &quot;promote&quot; Classic and Modern coin collecting through their Registry Set Programs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both Companies have online Price &quot;guides&quot; and online &quot;population reports&quot; which are integrated into their Registry Programs.</p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS does have an online Population program, which you must register to use, but its fairly scattered and since they&#039;ve been in business since the 70&#039;s, with multiple ownership changes, the data is by no means complete. For that matter, the same could be said with regard to PCGS and NGC in that the populations may or maynot be accurate. Population Report accuracy has always been dependent upon folks sending in crackout labels which often times does not occur.</p><p><br /></p><p>The difference between PCGS, NGC and ANACS is that ANACS will attribute ANY variety whereas the other two &quot;requires&quot; the variety to be published in the CPG thereby elevating the CPG to &quot;Biblical&quot; status. There&#039;s really nothing wrong with this as long as folks understand that the CPG is simply a presentation of currently &quot;popular&quot; varieties gathered from other sources of which CONECA tops the list. A perusal of the CONECA list of varieties shws that there&#039;s a whole lot more than what appears in the CPG. A whole lot!</p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS, will attribute these whereas the big two will not.</p><p><br /></p><p>I fought for years to get PCGS to recognize the Type 2 1971-D Eisenhower Dollar. It&#039;s a completely different variety with easily distinguishable pickup points (the same as the 1972 Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 coins) yet they simply would not. Mind you, had they agreed then you fine folks would be getting your 1971-D RDV-006 coins (i.e. Friendly Eagle) attributed for $14. However, since it got put in the latest CPG, you can now get them attrobuted for $14 plus a $24 attribution fee.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m of the opinion that this is &quot;not right&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dang, I allowed myself to get sidetrack with my own agenda!</p><p><br /></p><p>Nowever, the whole point being that PCGS and NGC, given their specific agenda&#039;s, have set requirements for coin attribution whereas ANACS does not. The same could be said of ICG but I do not submit to them so I do not know. I DO know that the OCG coins I submitted for corssover to PCGS crossed at grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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