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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ddddd, post: 25371616, member: 22377&quot;]Here is some info from [USER=66]@Conder101[/USER] about NCI:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>NCI was begun by Jim Halprin back in 1984. (The NCI grading guide states NCI began in 985 but the first generation of certificates are dated in 1984. ) Jim was also one of the founders of Heritage. While they claim their was no connection between the two firms, I find that somewhat suspect since they were both owned by the same person, both dealt extensively with coins, and were both located in the same building. NCI was also the first <a href="https://www.coincommunity.com/dictionary/coins_t.asp?define=TPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coincommunity.com/dictionary/coins_t.asp?define=TPG" rel="nofollow">TPG</a> to actually publish their own grading guide. If I remember off the top of my head NCI issued eight generations of photocertificates and one generation of slab. Five varieties of photocertificate were produced in 1987 and there is some overlap in usage dates. The slab was issued in conjunction with the 8th photocertificate variety in 1988 and 89. Then the certificate was phased out. NCI closed their doors in 1992.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Back during those years NCI was considered the joke <a href="https://www.coincommunity.com/dictionary/coins_t.asp?define=TPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coincommunity.com/dictionary/coins_t.asp?define=TPG" rel="nofollow">TPG</a>, rated lower than Accugrade. Once they closed their door ACG then became the industry whipping boy. Oddly though for a long time the Coin Dealers Newsletter had a box on one of their pages rating four or five services giving for each what percentage of sheet price each would bring. I believe they listed PCGS, NGC, ANACS, and NCI. Usually NCI was rated higher than ANACS. I always found that interesting because this was going on eight to ten years after NCI went out of business and their slabs were seldom seen in the marketplace. It seems odd that they would be rated so highly when they were considered bottom of the barrel while they were still in business.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=329847" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=329847" rel="nofollow">https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=329847</a></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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