Disappointed With ANACS Submission Of 1922 No "D" Penny.

You would think they would have offered a refund or something?

I don't know the ins and outs of ANACS personnel, but isn't Paul just a guy who goes to coin shows drumming up business? I met a Paul from ANACS earlier this year at a show in northern CO and I got a sales/marketing vibe without a whole lot of coin expertise. Certainly his response was just digging the customer hole deeper, but I'm not sure that the actual grade is wrong. Everything on the slab is accurate. Who wants to put a no-D after "corroded, cleaned"?

You put no d after corroded and cleaned if that's what it is.

ANACS response to a very well thought out email from mistermann is further proof that, at least for me, I would never do business with ANACS. Kudos to you mistermann on the email to ANACS.. Boo to you ANACS for your response. Sheeesh...

This is an interesting discussion, so I'll add my .02, which is that the grading was OK (probably a fragment of MM; too corroded to assert otherwise anyway), but, as others have noted, the email exchange was fairly close to catastrophic. I don't know much about how the TPGs operate, but I'm sure they get a lot of messages, a certain number of them challenging or even irate, and I suspect Mr. VP just went into "Dissatisfied customer, send a polite but unbending reply" mode and cranked out a reply that contained an error. Maybe at the end of a long day, some part of his brain said, It doesn't have a D, it must be from Philly. He probably knows the facts, but just maybe he does not know that there are no Philly 1922's, which would be pretty bad because most of us have known that since we were about nine years old. I think they realized how bad it was when their final reply was just Oops, that was wrong. Most anything else would have just dug the hole deeper. One last little thing: OP said in one of the posts a few before this one that you can have a "Plain" if there is fragment of a MM. If you are looking for a Die Pair 2 "No D," that's not the case. Obviously, with the other pairs, there can be a remnant. Pardon me if I missed your point. I assume you have seen this:

http://lincolncentresource.com/1922...rieties.html

Yep it was just something I read in another article, probably misinformation. I appreciate all the responses, it's a fun and interesting discussion.

Totally late to the party. I was almost positive in your original thread that it was a 1922 No D Die #2. Maybe I should have been more careful because of the corrosion present, that there might be a remnant of a D present. I'm sorry ANACS didn't see it that way, but unfortunately when the smoke clears, they are probably correct. Their email fiasco doesn't do much for their credibility, and the talking head you were communicating with certainly didn't help the situation.