ANACS Insider Grading Special.

Sorry to try and explain .. I do not think you will get it.




But last try

Who do you consider a experience collector?

To start with, it is hard to find any two collector that
thinks exactly the same way.

For me ... I have been collecting since the 1960's.
And have a large collection, over 20K coins, around
60 albums.

For the past 3 or 4 years I have worked in a coin shop.
Buying and selling coins everyday. So I work with
collectors more than the average person.

If we have a coin of the same type and grade in either a PCGS, NGC or ANACS slab, if a customer wants that coin I will sell him that coin. To me .. the real collectors buy the coin not the slab.

ANACS is said to be the third largest TPG. That would mean
many thousands of collector use them every year. I know I
would not want to put all those collectors into a general
group of amateur or gambler type collectors.

Lastly, let's say you were going to buy a 1914 D Lincoln
or a U.S. Trade dollar On ebay, both highly faked coins.
There were two coins in your price range and in the same grade. One was raw and one in a ANACS slab.

Which would you buy?

I believe that the two biggest TPG's show more inconsistency, ie, PCGS & NGC, they grade a huge number of coins. Frankly I 'have felt that ANACS and ICG have been the most consistent. Right now on the forum is a 1885-cc Morgan graded MS65 and I AM SURE, that most would not grade it more than 63

@Coinfrog.




How but this: you sign up for the ANACS mailing list today and come December they will send you an invite for their insider grading special. You choose 2 coins to send in and cough cough dig deep and come up with $21 to cover the shipping.

You post your slabbed coins back from ANACS and then crack the same coins out and submit them raw to the TPG service of your choice and post the slabbed results.

While there may be suckers (I mean high-level collectors since you mention only intermediate-level collectors buy ANACS) are willing to pay more for a label or marketing gimmick that does not mean that the quality of the service which you are actually paying for (authentication and accurate grading of the coin) is any less.

See you in December. I'll post mine if you post yours.

My insider grading specials post grades today.
Will be shipping out tomorrow.

Very happy with the two coins I selected and the grades.

I had added a third coin and paid for a variety.
Not happy with that one. At first they had told
me they would slab it, that did not happen.
Was my 1788 Vermont, I told them it had been
silver plated or had a silver wash.

No luck on that one. But they are sending me a free
submission coupon for the misunderstanding.

I am really happy with the other two. For $21.00
I have them graded, better then I hope for.

And now if I was to list them on ebay, there will
be less worry for bidders, because they are
authentic.

A friend sent two coins in at the same time as mine.
One was a 1903 $5.00 Liberty. Before she sent it in,
she was only offered $260. Now that it is in a
MS-62 slab, she has a first offer of $310.

I think that that is a nice jump for a $10.50 cost
of slabbing.