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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2299800, member: 24314&quot;]I have read in Numismatic News and other places over the years that the FIRST professional grading service at the International Numismatic Society&#039;s Authentication Bureau was grading coins for their customers (at no additional cost) several months before the ANA.&nbsp; The principals at that service included the founding Director/grader/authenticator at ANACS (Charles Hoskins) before the Certification Service was moved to Colorado.&nbsp; As soon as the ANA started to charge for its opinions on grade, INSAB did the same.&nbsp; Both services along with one NCI (?) - the name slips me at the moment were in business long before the &quot;big two&quot; we have now.&nbsp; As I posted somewhere else, ANACS was forces to become Market graders while the technical grading done by INSAB eventually forced them out of any competition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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