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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1331206, member: 66&quot;]A certificate issued by a TPG guaranteeing authenticity and/or grading that includes a photo of the actual coin so that the certificate and the coin can be matched up.&nbsp; This was supposed to keep a certificate from being used to sell a different coin.&nbsp; Unfortunately people get lazy and didn&#039;t bother checking.&nbsp; Back in the early 80&#039;s there was a big market in ANACS photocertificates being bought and sold so sellers could pair up a cleaned or questionable piece with a good certificate and sell it for a premium as &quot;certified&quot;.&nbsp; Still happens to a small extent today.&nbsp; At the Michigan State show I had a dealer show me an SVDB that he had with an ANACS certificate.&nbsp; He was real proud of the coin until I pointed out that it didn&#039;t match the coin on the cetificate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Many companies used photocertificates at first.&nbsp; The TPG didn&#039;t completely switch to slabs until late 1989.&nbsp; The only company that has used a photocertificate since then has been NGC, and that was a special case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are examples of the first and last certificate types used by ANACS</p><p><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z165/Conder101/ANACS%20varieties/ANA1O.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z165/Conder101/ANACS%20varieties/ANA1R.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z165/Conder101/ANACS%20varieties/ANACS10A.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z165/Conder101/ANACS%20varieties/ANACS10R.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And this is the NGC Photocertificate.&nbsp; These were only used on the 700+ foreign gold coins from the Eliasberg collection.&nbsp; Most of these no longer exist because NGC gave the buyers the option to send the coin and certificate back in for encapsulation and most buyers took them up on it.&nbsp; You will also note that NGC limited their liability on these to a maximum of $100.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z165/Conder101/ANACS%20varieties/NGC%20varieties/NGC19CERTF.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z165/Conder101/ANACS%20varieties/NGC%20varieties/NGC19CERTB.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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