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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1404085, member: 112"]Well when someone ask the question of who was the first TPG, it depends on what you mean. For example, do they have to have slabbed the coins ? Or did they just grade the coins ? Understand the difference ? ANACS was the first company to grade coins. But they did not slab them, as I said. They started grading coins in 1972. Long before ACG or PCGS. But there was supposedly some company, nobody knows the name, out west that started grading coins even before that. The reason PCGS took off was mainly advertising, and they were good at it. David Hall was good at talking the talk. There was a ton of stuff going on back then. And it all seemed to come together at the same time. ANA grading standards changed in '86. PCGS opened it's doors in '86. The coin market was going up and David Hall screamed it would go higher. NGC opened in '87. Both of these companies were filling a need. Yeah ANACS already existed, but they couldn't keep up. And they didn't advertise and promote coins the way PCGS and NGC did. Yeah ACG was the first company with plastic slabs, but they over-graded everything and everybody knew it. So when PCGS and NGC came out - they took off. Public loved 'em. 'Course they didn't care for 'em much 3 years later when the coin market blew up. But by then they were entrenched. Slabs were here to stay.[/QUOTE]