bstrauss3

One of the wonderful things to come out from the COVID-19 pandemic was that a Spanish-speaking numismatic researcher was trapped in Madrid for about a year. He requested and received a researcher's credential and spent the pandemic researching the history of the Spanish Colonial mints from the original source material. He wrote a letter to NI (Numismatics International) indicating he has enough material for four years of writting.

BUZZ --- But thanks for playing. We have some nice parting gifts for you! A PLANCHETTE is used with an Ouija board. A PLANCHET is used in the manufacture of a coin.

Technically it's not a sample. It is a production slab, produced by PCGS for Littleton for the Random House "One Minute Coin Expert" by Scott Travers, second edition, ISBN #0-676-60045-X. The quantity produced is variously reported as absurd numbers. Regardless it's common.

They are at their hearts librarians and so the search is one only a librarian could love. Try using Google, with "site:nnp.wustl.edu" as the first parameter in your search.

I don't recall that the meeting was being recorded. If it was, it hasn't been posted yet. LSCC is not an unsophisticated bunch, the questions were fairly deep, The answers were always some form of "that's a good question, we haven't figured it out yet". I sort of figure the business model is to re-grade all of the coins that the fan-boys have had stickered. That will keep them busy for several years at the rates they can achieve. But unless they're charging LVMH boutique fees, I don't see how that pays the rent, especially with the costs of building out the business and a grading set. Even if a lot of the coins are borrowed at first (somebody, Wittier maybe, posted they were sending a very nice coin to CAC to be part of the grading set). I wasn't a fan of the green when NTC used it. Still not. I get the white vs. black for gold, red copper, etc. But EVERYTHING looks TERRIBLE in puke-green.

You're off by a decade. 1989-1990 was the Amos Aquisition of ANACS. If you go back and read the stuff in the numismatist, you will see that they sold it off because it would have taken a seven-figure investment to make it competitive with the market graders. Which wasn't compatible with the educational mission of the ANA. And because it was hard to justify competing with profit-oriented businesses. But yep, the sale of ANACS ended the last hold out for the ANA Technical Grading Standards. To those up-thread who say we need accurate, consistent grading, let me just point out that there's 30 years of history saying the market doesn't want it. I predict there will be an interesting, um, dynamic around CAC-Grading. With just 3 graders, there's an upper limit to the # of coins they can grade. They certainly seem to hope the riffraff (moderns) won't play, but that's the bulk of the business these days, I don't know how many caught JA's presentation to the LSCC last week, but there's an awful lot he said they don't know yet. This is not a grading service stepping out, fully formed, from the Oyster Shell like Venus. If everyone is expecting a miraculous cure for all the ills of today's TPGs, it will be a bumpy ride.

I see Penny is applying that most important cat rule: "If I FITS, I SITS"

And sometimes, the jerk you saw was fogging the mirror, eh Kurt?

I would bet, esp. given the age, that ANACS of the time had no leg to stand on. When you submit a coin, there is a legal contract involved. For our hosts it's right here: https://www.ngccoin.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/ 3. Customer represents and warrants that it has no knowledge and no reasonable basis for belief that any collectible submitted is not genuine or contains any non-disclosed alterations or restorations, including, but not limited to, trimming, re-coloring, bleaching, power erasing, re-backing, artificially toning, applying or removing punches or stamps, or any other method used to change or enhance the appearance, condition, or content of a collectible (collectively “Tampering” or “Tampered”). Customer acknowledges that Tampering is wrongful and violations of this Section 3 shall entitle Company to compensatory damages and injunctive relief, as appropriate. 18. Customer agrees to return to a Company, at the Company’s expense, any collectible bearing a clerical error made by the Company. A Company will, at its expense, correct the clerical error and return the corrected collectible to Customer. Customer agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Releasees harmless from and against all claims, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) relating to or arising directly or indirectly from Customer’s failure to comply with this Section 18. 19. In the event a collectible submitted by Customer is determined, at any time, to be not genuine or to have been Tampered with, Customer shall provide reasonable cooperation to Company and to any subsequent owner of such collectible, including the reversal of any sales transaction involving Customer and such subsequent owner or intermediate purchaser or transferee. Anyone have the T&Cs from ANACS in 1973????

pareidolia

The SSN hasn't been doing this type of assignments (by office) for quite a while, since June 2011... https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html