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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Danny_V, post: 42481, member: 2641&quot;]I&#039;m new at collecting coins and I am going to send my 1895 20 Centavos Puerto Rico coin to be authenticated and graded by ANACS sometime this week or next week. I&#039;m choosing ANACS because they seem to be less strict with cleaned coins, which mine is.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want my coin sent back to me un-slabbed just because it was cleaned.&nbsp; My main concern is authenticity. I could really care less if it was cleaned or if it has a couple of minor scratches. Also, I am not a member of any coin association which other grading services require you to be.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;However, my main concern like I said before is to get my coin authenticated, not so much graded, as my hobbies to collect is more out of love of history than as a pure and technical coin collector. I would like to know how accurate and reliable these grading services are as far as authenticating coins.&nbsp; What kind of steps and procedures do they use to authenticate a coin?&nbsp; Is it just simply weighing them and looking for general signs, or do they do a very thourough and detailed inspection not just on the coin but on the history of the type of coin itself?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If I get my coin back as &quot;authentic&quot;, how confident should I be that it is indeed authentic and that a thourough inspection was made? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for any info anybody might be able to give me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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