First Taylor, Now Standish Leaves ANACS

Apparently there is a behind the scene "Power Play" going on? One thing is for certain I don't buy the politically correct answers the boys will throw out for WE the flock as there is something rotten going on at ANACS. They should have stayed in the Midwest and built off of their fine reputation they had here!

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Originally posted by SuperDave

Word on the street is that Miles Standish has jumped ANACS for PCGS. Now what?

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Break out the Snickers: "Not going anywhere for awhile..."

There's been a number of interesting things that happened this year starting with the 100 point grading discussion at the FUN show. A discussion that basically ended with a "bite-me" from coin collectors. There was a photo in 1/23/06 CoinWorld that I don't think I'm ever going to forget. It was a group photo of the Top Guns at the discussion: James Halperin, Julian Leidman, David Hall, David Bowers, Scott Travers, and Don Kagin. I don't think I have ever seen more somber and even perplexed looks on faces of people.

There was just recently, the merging of ANR with Stacks. Has anything like that ever happened before? Why?

There was just recently PCGS applying to register the term "First Strike" as a Trademark. Followed by NGC's petition to the Trial and Appeal Board to cancel it. And I always thought the Teamsters had the trademark on "First Strike."

On the matter of "First Strikes" someone in Florida has just filed a class action suit against NGC.
http://www.coinworld.com/news/cwhl.asp?uID=&hlID=1

There's Tom Noe. Scandals are never a good sign of things to come in markets. Neither are "records" that are more flash than substance. The MS70 2003 Lincoln comes to mind.

There was a remarkable, (IMO) if practically un-noticed comment by Ron Guth in 3/27/06 CoinWorld. "The goal in grading is not to find every defect on a coin, but to find those flaws that affect the visual appearance of a coin when viewed by the unaided eye." With all due respect to Mr. Guth, it's rather normal for collectors to get really picky when grades and prices keep going up. IMO, the more picky they get, the more they are perceiving gradflation.

Then there's James and Miles. This has to be the strangest event of all! ANACS can replace James, IMO, without a lot of trouble. James may be a very intellectual person, but is that really necessary? I think any reputable coin dealer who's good in business can take over. Miles is another matter. He seems to have this reputation of "The Natural"--the "gifted." There may not be another Miles out there. David Bowers, IMO, is also "The Natural." How many David Bowers types still standing, are there in Numismatics?

All buckled up?

I think the PCGS and NGC thing about the First Strike designation should fall through (not only because First strike is totally bogus)its because PCGS used the wording "First Strike" and NGC uses the wording as "First Strikes" with the "S". I know its a small difference but should be enough from having the lawsuit stick in my opinion

Has anyone obtained confirmation of either Miles or James leaving ANACS? So far, it appears it's just a rumor which is cycling around and being repeated with no formal statements from ANACS or anyone else "in the know".

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Has anyone obtained confirmation of either Miles or James leaving ANACS?

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Susan called James on his cell phone and spoke with him, he is definitely not with ANACS anymore.

That's pretty solid confirmation.

With this kind of turbulence, is there any future for ANACS? I've already realigned my thinking on my next submissions and just applied for NGC associate membership through my ANA membership.

WOW!!! I am surprised they took him back, but I guess the guy that replaced him wasn't doin as good as they thought he would either. Now I wonder if we will be sayin "ICG, ICG ,ICG is the place to send your coins" if James still visits the forum from time to time