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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 25260792, member: 59677&quot;]The soapbox or SWH covers a two different ownerships and a range of grading practices.</p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS ownership (first of the 2 letters 4 numbers) grades were strict technical ANA grading standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Under Amos Press ownership (later 2 letters 4 numbers and into the all numerics), the grading morphed into the market grading we know today. If you wanted to interpret that as looser the higher the cert#, I couldn&#039;t argue.</p><p><br /></p><p>This makes for some interesting &quot;grades&quot;... </p><p><br /></p><p>For example, there is a period where ANACS did net grading of details coins. &quot;AU Details Net VF35&quot; or this gem:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1611368[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(try this search: <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=anacs+details+net&amp;_sacat=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=anacs+details+net&amp;_sacat=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=anacs+details+net&amp;_sacat=0</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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