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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 623815, member: 66&quot;]I am not aware of INA, but I would love to acquire an example of their product.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know of two other companies in the UK, one is an authentication service, and they only do the milled coinage no hammered.&nbsp; The do not slab but issue a printed report with the coin.&nbsp; That is Robert Matthew, formerly of the Royal Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other service does use slabs, and pioneered the use of a 1 to 10 point grading scale CGS-UK.&nbsp; I&#039;m assuming that they thought that since everywhere else in the orld runs on a base ten metric system a grading scale of 1 to 100 would make a lot more sense to Europeans than the Americans wierd 1-70 scale and it would be a foot in the door to getting more non-US collectors to accept slabs.&nbsp; Their grading is actually very strict.&nbsp; I suspect if they ad startd a few years earlier when most of the European market was still anti-slab they&#039;ve have had an easier time of it.&nbsp; CGS-UK was also on of the first to use edge view type slabs.&nbsp; For some reason though they gave up the edgview and went to translucent rings instead.&nbsp; The edge view is only seen on their first generation holders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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