*** 1949 - UNION OF SA 5 SHILLINGS - ANACS GRADED PF64 - ONLY 800 MINTED ***

ANACS - ESTABLISHED IN 1972

One of the top four grading companies.  Once owned by the ANA and the first third party service to authentic and grade coins.  In the early 1970's the ANA Board of Governers reconized that something significant needed to be done about the counterfit and altered coins that were plaguing the coin community.  Their solution was ANACS, the American Numismatic Association Certification Service.  ANACS began with a staff of two experts with Washington, D.C. as it's home.

Washington was chosen in order to utilize the Smithonian's Nusmimatic Collection and to be near the Treasury Department, specifically the Secret Service.   ANACS certified its first coin as genuine on June 15, 1972.  In 1976, ANACS was moved to Colorado Springs where ANA had its headquarters.  Three years later, ANACS began grading coins using the technical grading standards that the ANA had established earlier with its book, "The Official American Nusmatic Association Grading Standards for United States Coins".