ANACS (coin grading company)

The American Numismatic Association Certification Service, better known as ANACS, is a coin grading company founded in 1972.[1]

History

Originally founded in June 1972 as the American Numismatic Association's authentication service, ANACS expanded into third-party coin grading in March 1979. ANACS was founded in response to the rise in counterfeit and altered coins in the numismatic marketplace. During the coin collecting boom of the 1960s, counterfeiters would alter common-date coins, and either add or remove a mintmark in order to sell the coins as their more-valuable counterparts. (For example, an 'S' mint mark would be added to a 1909 VDB Lincoln cent in order to increase the coin's value by making collectors think it was a genuine 1909-S VDB cent).[2] ANA sold ANACS to the publisher of Coin World in 1989, and it has since been resold.[1] In accordance with the first business strategy, Chicago Pacific Corporation attempted a hostile takeover of the Textron Group in October 1984. CPC offered $1.6 billion.[3] However, the takeover bid failed.[4] The subsequent bid to Scovill Inc. (zippers, haberdashery) was also rejected.[5]

References
  1. "ANACS". coinweek.com. CoinWeek, LLC. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  2. DeLorey, Tom. "The History of the First Third-Party Coin Grading Service – ANACS". coinweek.com. CoinWeek, LLC. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  3. New York Times 25. Oktober 1984: "A big Textron bid by Chicago Pacific"
  4. New York Times 1. November 1984: "Textron rejects takeover bid"
  5. Chicago Tribune 16. August 1987: "Chicago Pacific Switches Tracks"

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