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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2301900, member: 24314&quot;]I am totally new to coin forms.&nbsp; I should be fired from my job if I had been doing this as long as you.&nbsp; I am enjoying all the old threads about BTDH topics!&nbsp; We are contemporaries and cannot believe we have not met LONG AGO at a major show.</p><p>I believe Condor has set me &quot;straight&quot; on a few occasions already <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>HOWEVER, I do disagree 100% on the history of ANACS/INSAB and their coin grading services as quoted by you.&nbsp; I certainly will try to find a copy of that book as I have wished someone would publish the history of ANACS and the other grading services. Congratulations are in order for Condor!!!!&nbsp; I should like to point out that Condor may be the leading authority on coin slabs and coin grading services; yet he may not have researched the subject completely. I hope to meet him one day to possibly add some information that may be lacking.&nbsp; It would be a crying shame if any omissions are not corrected in the 2nd edition.</p><p><br /></p><p>For now, I cannot comment on any &quot;historical facts&quot; that may be in that book as I have not read it; but things don&#039;t look too good based on your statements.&nbsp; Is the International Numismatic Society Authentication Bureau - THE first TPGS even mentioned?&nbsp;&nbsp; NCI?&nbsp; I know that Hallenbeck&#039;s dad was collecting slabs from the very beginning.&nbsp; Years ago I gave him some.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I was Charter Member #007 (I believe) in the INS and lived in D.C.&nbsp; I knew/visited the people at ANACS (in DC) and INSAB.&nbsp; I make my posts here based on what I learned from them about their grading systems and what I have read.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the tip...Hope Condor&#039;s book is on Amazon.&nbsp; It will be my present to myself&nbsp; for sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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