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Valued Member
United States
185 Posts |
The VP of ANACS is in charge of the New Imaging, you pay $3 for the service. When we first saw what we get for our service we were floored. PCGS takes a nice high resolution picture 4200 x 4200 pixels of the coin prior to slabbing. ANACS take a 900 x 700 pixel photo of the slab front and back. example is https://www.anacs.com/Verify/CertVe...cert=6200226In this photo you can't even see the date of the coin. What use is this imaging to the purchaser? The only good is for ANACS, for some kind of Library of coins. Comments? |
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
NGC not only takes and loads your photos into your own virtual album and all your qualifying registry sets, but it's pulling photos of anything not yet in their database. If you buy from Stacks BOwers, Heritage, Great Collections, or ebay, NGC snatches the photos for their files for anything they didn't have before. Not needing to take, edit, and then post photos is something I very much appreciate. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7621 Posts |
Looks like the picture was taken using a cheap smartphone camera using only ambient lighting by a very bored Summer intern.
At 3$ it is not an option I'd buy!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Doesn't look very appealing as shown.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
852 Posts |
Most PCGS coins in Australia are NOT photographed before slabbing but after as PCGS HK photographs(often badly, often poorly focused) the coins in the slab. Makes it hard to identify dies, flaws and fakes. PCGS (California) does better photos but not really of a high enough resolution to spot the finer die markers and often the coin in hand looks much different to the photo.
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Bedrock of the Community
13014 Posts |
I certainly would not be happy if I paid for it and that's the photo I got. If that's the best they can do they should honestly just abandon the service all together
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Valued Member
Australia
73 Posts |
krap I hope you did not pay for that service ;)
obviously to me they are recording the slab holder details and saving hard drive storage :)
truly people need to tell them to lift their game up !
regards
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4592 Posts |
That's OK, I paid for it when I submitted a couple years back and never got the photos. Customer Service ignores me. I've reached out to Paul directly (with a laundry list of four or five CS issues) and through two ANACS staffers I know and never received even the courtesy of a bleep you email.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
646 Posts |
Can't see the date? Can't see bloody anything!
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Valued Member
Australia
73 Posts |
its on the holder slab, that seems to be the focus of the photo and nothing to do with the real item; the coin itself ...
LoL its like they are saying the slab is important and not the coin itself . . . ;)
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
That's inexcusable. A 24 MP DSLR with cheap kit lens these days costs $400-500. Even NGC provides nice pics for verification free of charge. There's enough details in NGC pics to pick out individual coin characteristics, but sometimes the lighting is really bad and it doesn't help, especially if the coin is smaller/thinner.
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