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

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My response

I am very saddened with the response I read from my previous inquiry. First you say my coin is not a 1922 no D it's just a 1922 plain struck in Philadelphia. Well if that's the case then why was my coin labelled "1922-D"? In the collecting community a 1922 no D and a 1922 plain are considered the exact same coin, just different names. Secondly, you state that my coin is a 1922 plain struck in Philadelphia. That is absolutely untrue as Philadelphia never minted pennies in 1922, a quick Google search could tell you this. It's very concerning to me when I hear a statement like this from the vice president of a major coin grading company. All credibility in my eyes has been lost with this response, and I would like to request a refund at this point.

Their reply

Sorry Drew, you are correct. As is the results of your submission. The coin in just a normal 1922 D. I wish we could give all our customers the results they are hoping for, but that is not what we do at ANACS. There are other grading services out there that are willing to do such things, but I don't think that is what you want.



Please let us know if you need anything else.

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.