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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 3103138, member: 39084&quot;]Everybody needs to understand that there is a huge (and legal) difference between an <i><b>authentication</b></i> and a <i><b>guarantee</b></i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>An <i>authentication</i> is just an opinion, expert or not, that the item is authentic -- in this case, an authentic ancient coin.&nbsp; If the coin turns out <b>not</b> to be authentic, there isn&#039;t necessarily a legal obligation on the part of the authenticator to do anything at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>A <i>guarantee</i> is a specific agreement to do something if the item is proven to be NOT as represented -- in this case, the guarantee may possibly pay for or replace the non-authentic coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if ANACS actually guarantees its authentication opinion via any sort of financial or replacement commitment.&nbsp; Such a guarantee would have to be explicitly written somewhere in the material supplied by ANACS along with the coin.&nbsp; It&#039;s possible that they guarantee their authentication only to the extent of refunding the cost of the slabbing process if the coin is later proven not to be authentic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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