Is Anda Holding Back Australian Numismatics?

Yeah,life's a jungle,same as a car dealer having a Licence,some are genuine and try to do the right thing,others are shonky who try every trick in the book when $ are involved.
My pet beef is the 1925 Penny Mintage,somehow its blended into the 1926(or 24 or both)but somehow the facts were buried by most pro. dealers as we headed to Decimal currency.

"holding back" is a bit of a vague phrase and I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that.

To start ANDA stands for Australasian Numismatic DEALER's Association. There is a clue in the name. ANDA represents the dealers. I think that is something that hobby collectors (like myself) need to remember.

Dealers that I have learnt to trust generally end up being ANDA dealers. But that doesn't mean all ANDA dealers are trust worthy.

Thats why part of the fun of the hobby is educating yourself because nothing is 100% reliable, not even certified coins.

A small core of coin dealers got together and with the best of intentions, decided that there sould be a set of high ethical standards that each member would endeavour to adhere to.

There is a group amongst these dealers who do their best to hold at least one major coin fair in each of the largest Capitals in Australia.

There needs to be some advantage perceived by a coin dealer, to become a member of this gouping.

The result is that it is mainly a grouping of coin dealers acting in their own best interests.
If a coin collector or investor can see some advantage in going to a major ANDA coin fair then hopefully, so much the better for everyone.

Trout I think you may have misunderstood where I was coming from on my question. This thread isn't aimed at what individual dealers are doing some do great things as you said and others do bad things too. The main point of it is the effectivity of ANDA in conducting what it is supposed to do and how the results of this process uphold the purpose of ANDA and/or how this process is abused by unethical dealers to maintain their unethical business practices and to hush up certain unsavoury situations at the expense of the wider numismatic community. The ANDA dealers for the most part are great dealers however there are dealers who have had a founding interest in ANDA and who have used and abused the process but it seems like ANDA either can't or will not discipline these dealers.

I agree that many dealers do participate and support numismatics and I congratulate those dealers on their education of the numismatic community and they are absolutely fantastic dealers. Tho there are those who attempt to withhold information from the numismatic community or even use their position to diseminate completely false information to benefit their business interests at the expense of the collector e.g. the dealers spreading falsities about PCGS or TPG grading in general.

Main point of the topic is how ANDA promotes benefits for numismatics while minimising detriments as a separate organisation as opposed to how individual dealers do.

Yeah that is right on what I am trying to say such as is ANDA willing to step up when needed to maintain the integrity of the hobby. Personally my opinion of ANDA would increase significantly if they were willing to make the hard decisions to improve numismatics (could anyone confirm if ANDA has ever taken disciplinary action against a unethical dealer? (Really would love to hear that ANDA is willing and able to do what needs to be done), I mean at least one has to be bordering on a criminal charge and if a criminal charge comes before disciplinary action by ANDA then there has got to be something very wrong with how it conducts its affairs)