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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2278685, member: 66&quot;]Nope.&nbsp; There is no one over them forcing them to grade to ANA standards.&nbsp; Each of them has their own set of standards that they use for grading.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Take three coins withthe same grade but make the ANACS coin a little better than the other two and usually it will STILL get the lowest bid.&nbsp; Why? Grading service bias, and the general lower marketablity of ANACS coins caused by that bias.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the problem was they were late out of the starting gate.&nbsp; Although ANACS began before PCGS and NGC, they didn&#039;t embrace slabbing almost three years after NGC was founded.&nbsp; ICG was even later at eleven years.&nbsp; So they were way behind trying to capture a piece of the market when they started , and neither one could match the market funding of the top two.&nbsp; Then the shake up ANACS and ICG had in Dec of 2007 didn&#039;t help.&nbsp; When you&#039;re the two chimps in the room with the two 800 pound gorillas, it doesn&#039;t help to beat each other up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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