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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2344890, member: 24314&quot;]You might like to know this bit of numismatic trivia as it &quot;mirrors&quot; your idea...I learned in a grading seminar long ago that Charles Hoskins (former director of the ANACS Authentication Service and the director of the first coin grading service at the International Numismatic Society) believed that grading was a subjective, educated opinion.&nbsp; For that reason, the INS grading opinion was issued on a separate card from the INS Photo Certificate of authenticity.&nbsp; The second grading service at ANACS included the grade on the photo certificate.&nbsp; Years later, when INS began to use a large rectangular plastic &quot;Photo Slab&quot; the grade was placed on the label.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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