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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 25864647, member: 59677&quot;]Those are later Amos.</p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS was originally owned by the ANA (American Numismatic Association) and used the smaller SWH (Small White Holders).</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of stories, the public one from the ANA board is that they didn&#039;t feel it was appropriate as a non-profit org to put the million dollars it would have required for modernization into a for-profit enterprise. And so ANACS was sold to Amos Press (Coin World).</p><p><br /></p><p>Amos chugged along with the SWH, and converted from the two-letter/four-number serials to all numeric. Then they introduced the larger SWH. Finally, ANACS was sold to Anderson Press (owner of Whitman Publishing, e.g. the Red Book).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anderson introduced the curve-top slab used today, and the blue labels.</p><p><br /></p><p>The highest SWH cert number is just over 3,000,000 so your 2.7m is towards the end of Amos.&nbsp; Your 1.2m is late-middle.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why does any of this matter? Well...</p><p><br /></p><p>ANA ownership was technical grading as described in the Official ANA Grading Standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Under Amos, grading moved more towards the &quot;market grading&quot; that everybody uses today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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