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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 8191363, member: 59677&quot;]You need to differentiate fresh material from those that have been knocking about the market for years.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it was in Pop&#039;s collection since it was graded, there is a chance it&#039;s considered undergraded by today&#039;s &quot;standards&quot; such that they are. </p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s been knocking around and a dozen people have had it in hand and NOT chosen to crack it out, you can assume its over graded even by today&#039;s loose standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>You also need to differentiate between the variations of the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>XX#### the 2 letter/4 digit sequences go back to the earliest ANA ownership and then through the 1st years of Amos Press.</p><p><br /></p><p>ANA was strictly technical grading. Mostly undergraded by today&#039;s standard, but equally, some are correct and some are overgraded. The current &quot;market&quot; grading is not just an overlay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amos definitely embraced market grading, but it was an evolutionary process. Their XX#### coins are still somewhat technical (Blue underprint is ANA, Green is Amos).</p><p><br /></p><p>ANA</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; CD,&nbsp; EX,&nbsp; JK,&nbsp; KP,&nbsp; LO,&nbsp; LP,&nbsp; MJ,&nbsp; NJ,&nbsp; RD,&nbsp; TR,&nbsp; WD,&nbsp; WF, WR</p><p><br /></p><p>AMOS</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; NJ,&nbsp; PG,&nbsp; PK,&nbsp; SC,&nbsp; SX,&nbsp; WE,&nbsp; ZD</p><p><br /></p><p>Still using the same slab, Amos then started with the strict numeric sequence. but the XX#### had already been mapped, with gaps.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the 0####, 7####, etc. come AFTER XX#### but before the start of the new sequences which are 28####.</p><p><br /></p><p>PrefixChas PrefixValue</p><p>CD 10000</p><p>EX 20000 - EX is one of the two crossover (dual ANA/AMOS)</p><p>JK 30000</p><p>KP 40000</p><p>LO 50000</p><p>LP 60000</p><p>MJ 80000</p><p>NJ 90000</p><p>PG 100000</p><p>PK 110000</p><p>RD 120000</p><p>RE 130000 - RE is the other dual use</p><p>SC 140000</p><p>SX 160000</p><p>TR 170000</p><p>TS 180000</p><p>WD 190000</p><p>WE 200000</p><p>WF 230000</p><p>WR 240000</p><p>XA 260000</p><p>ZD 270000</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus cert# 75 is not the 75th coin ANACS certified, it comes after several hundred thousand coins were certified in the XX#### holders.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Saab86&#039;s preso shows this and more in glorious detail</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y_6cj6X2v_ZbO4NrqlRLysVeJO1IgoqnAA51ErVhLf8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y_6cj6X2v_ZbO4NrqlRLysVeJO1IgoqnAA51ErVhLf8" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y_6cj6X2v_ZbO4NrqlRLysVeJO1IgoqnAA51ErVhLf8</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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