Grading Coins

Welcome to Coin Community, 0076. Are you referring to ANACS?

If that's the case, I'm rather surprised by your experience. First, because ANACS is generally pretty good with continuing to describe a coin they've determined to be cleaned - they've been slabbing problem coins for years before NGC or PCGS picked up the habit. NGC and PCGS will generally just bodybag a coin immediately once they determine it's been cleaned, and do nothing further with it (unless you specifically ask for PCGS' new "Genuine" service or submit thru NGC's NCS division).

Second, their highest published attribution fee per coin is $10, so I wonder what they charged you $45 for.

This has got to be quite the coin - although they're hardly my specialty, this is the first brockage of a Draped Bust Cent I've heard of. Could you possibly post pictures of the coin?

The $45.00 fee was so that they would do extensive research, which they didn't. Said it was a triple strike and they didn't even take the time to check. There are 2 heads on the front and a head on the back. Tell me how I can take a decent picture through the slab and I will post it. My post was that I'm gun shy of all graders right now because ANACS has had this coin twice and have missed it both times. Ridiculous

That's odd ANACS is generally consistent. What I do is put a piece of felt(usually grey) if you don't have felt the inside backing of a cereal box does well too. Put this down slightly elevated off of a table directly under a well lit light source and put the coin down in the same manner(slightly elevated). This is what I do and it takes the glare off the slab. Hope that helps. Can't wait to see the coin!

Use this Link for how to get the pictures posted. As far as pictures through a slab, just try to cut down on reflection, no flash, and straight onto the coin. As close as you can get with good lighting will be key since we are looking for strike issues. It may be hard to get decent pictures at first, but you will get them eventually.

Good help is available right here at CCF:

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...?FORUM_ID=81

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Wowser.

I've been researching this; there are apparently a few error coins - brockages and double strikes - for this date.

I'm not going to blindly defend ANACS here, but I can see how a grade might hold this coin and say, "What?" to himself. However, having decided it was genuine, it's obviously worthy of significant research to try and determine what got it to this point. I infer that ANACS does consider this coin genuine?

Wander over to EACS - https://www.http://www.eacs.org/, and click the bottom link (Directory of Officers). Find the Chairman for your geographical region, and email them about this coin.