• Large operation in business since 1984 that many people feel uses more liberal grading standards than the above grading services and those published in both the ANA and Photograde grading guidelines.
• Ranked "unacceptable" in a 2002 survey of PNG (Professional Numismatists Guild) and ICTA (Industry Council for Tangible Assets) members in terms of grading accuracy and ability to detect altered, repaired, damaged, cleaned, and counterfeit coins.
• In deciding a Code of Ethics Violation Complaint in March 2003, the American Numismatic Association Board of Governors issued the following statements as part of its findings:

"ASA Accugrade does not clearly identify, particularly for the consumer to whom ASA Accugrade coins are sold, that ASA Accugrade coins do not conform to the industry accepted standards."
"A significantly larger percentage of grading errors appear to be made by ASA Accugrade then by other grading services."
"The [ANA] Board ... believes that [ASA Accugrade] standards can mislead the end consumer with regard to the value of the numismatic item being purchased."

• One collector's experience (you can view the entire message at Google Groups): "I sent six ACG graded Mercury dimes to ANACS. I broke them out of the holders. 1917S ACG MS-62 FB, ANACS Cleaned Net AU-55. 1919 ACG MS-63, ANACS Cleaned Net AU-55. 1924S ACG MS-63 FB, ANACS Scratched Net MS-60. 1925D ACG MS-62 FB, ANACS AU-58. 1943S ACG MS-67 FB, ANACS MS-64 FB. I really learned a lesson."
• One dealer's experience (you can view the entire message at Google Groups): "A High Relief Saint grading ACG MS-65 was offered to me at our shop along with other high-powered coins, all in ACG holders. After explaining the economic reality that his coins were worth about one-fourth of what he was led to believe, he allowed us to submit them to PCGS first, for crossover ... all body bagged. Then they went off to NGC ... all body bagged. Next ICG ... all body bagged. Then he decided to bite the bullet that we were right and his coins had problems, so we sent them to ANACS. Not surprising to us, but horrifying to him, every coin passed off as mint state by ACG was a problem coin. The High Relief came back MS Detail, Net XF-40, Tooled, Cleaned."
• ACG Packaging lets you assign your own grades to slabbed coins and to create your own slab label.
• ACG has its supporters. According to one numismatic writer, "Alan Hager [ACG founder] has built a profitable business by supplying to people something they want at a price they are willing to pay. That is in and of itself the noblest human endeavor."