Mine would be my only anacs coin. 1995 DDO In MS65RD. I think it would have been okay with a MS66 though.
Why would you buy them sight unseen? I have seen plenty of coins in all the top 3 tpgs that have issues, yet are in a problem free holder. I would not even buy CAC coins sight unseen - even some of those are technically nice for the grade but have 0% eye appeal to me. PS - I now have exactly 1 ANAC's graded coin left and that holder is broken. When the coin gets regraded it will go to PCGS or NGC - just my opinion.
The blue holders were used when Anderson Press (Whitman Coin Supplies) owned the service in Austin, TX The gold labels are used under the current J.P. Martin/James Taylor ownership in Colorado. Responsibility for the grading guarantee goes to the company that owned the service when the coin was graded.
Sight unseen trading is just like stocks. For accepting less money than sight seen trading, You get a guaranteed price when you sell no matter what the coin looks like, and you don't have to worry about anything coming back. The dealer agrees to buy everything at his posted bid price. The buying dealer agrees to take up any problems with the grading service.
I think they did, but if memory serves me, it only weighed 10,000 troy ounces or something like that. Pocket change...,, The Australian coin was minted (actually I don't even think it was minted, was more baked like a cake) to deliberately knock the Canadian monmouth off its pedistal.
How rare is the coin? I've read a few articles about the A spacing, from what I remember some are extremely rare depending on the date etc.
Thee 1999 Wide A M(WAM) Lincoln cent is #16 most rare out of a list of fifty in the Lincoln Cent Resource. The 1998 and the 2000 WAM's are much less rare ergo valuable. That doesn't tell us how many of each have been found. You'll have to look at them in the ANACS, PCGS, and NGC price lists for population totals of the 1999, then 1998, then 2000 WAM's to get a figure. But that would still only take in the ones submitted to each TPG. I figure that there is as many as five times the amount not or ever will be submitted. I have six mo9re 1999 WAM's that I probably will never send to a TPG. This sounds clear as mud. I hope you can grasp what I just stated. zeke
I purchased this coin at a local auction as raw. I paid a VF price for it. I sent it to NCS first and then I had it slabbed afterwards.