"Professional" Quality Job By ANACS

I was trying to wait to have an actual update before responding but unfortunately I have no update. They never responded to my email and I've tried calling a couple times but keep getting their answering service. They dont seem to like to answer the phone towards the end of the day. Ill try again tomorrow and at that point I basically give up.




I dont think so, I sent them express mail so it was in the belly of a plane. I had sent it the same way to PCGS and had no effect on it. I guess its theoretically possible but I think its unlikely.




To be honest I still like the look of the coin, I just hate the coin because of what happened to it. Had I seen the coin for the first time like this I would like, I'm just bitter about what was done to it making me have a strong bias against it now




I wish I had a concrete answer for that. Could be a new policy, someone new who didnt know what they were doing, this could be more common than we hear about, something to do with their new ownership and methods the last few years who knows. All I know for sure is that it didnt go right from the flip to grading to a slab. It was exposed to something it shouldnt have been sometime between arriving and being slabbed.

I remain open to the possibility that something environmental occurred outside of ANACS. During shipment it could have been exposed to extreme cold during this timeframe (-20F), rapid temperature change, and big changes in air pressure if in the belly of a plane. I don't know anything about the physics of toning, but that colorful sheen could be only one molecule thick. What happens if a minute amount of water vapor condenses and then evaporates again? Etc. Not saying ANACS didn't do it, just speculating.