2006 LMC DDO-004 FS-101 Found

Thanks for the update. It's a very nice grade and DDO.

So would it be accurate to say that you use PCGS for Cherrypicker varieties, and ANACS for all CONECA and Wexler-style varieties?

I have looked through the NGC-VarietyPlus catalog. Some of it seems standard, but what they choose to accredit beyond the typical stuff seems a little random.

Yes, in general. If it's a CPG variety I will always default to PCGS unless the huge grading fees they charge make it a losing transaction. And that happens a fair bit because, well, their fees are huge. ANACS remains a great company, with reasonable fees, and solid customer service. They also grade a lot tougher than NGC and at least as tough as PCGS. While prices for ANACS slabs just can't pull what PCGS will, for many coins that difference is made up in the giant difference in grading fees. So for the majors in high grades it's always PCGS. For most everything else it's ANACS.

It took me a long time to get enough coins I wanted to send for grading. Submitted 12 total. 4 graded what I expected, 4 graded 1 point less, 3 got "details cleaned" and then one graded 3 points higher than I anticipated.