Question About ANACS

What name does Laura post with on CU please?

 

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Soap bar slab.

 

I prefer to have my raw coins graded by Dietz & Watson. Professionals!

 

Will I see you in Nap Town on Sunday June 3rd? I'll be in Philly Friday and Saturday on business .

 

Hopefully.

 

The last time I crossed ANACS cons most went at the original grade or higher. I like ANACS coins but the market is biased towards PCGS / NGC and I would suggest you take that into account.

Many collectors slab coins thru ANACS as no membership fee for submittal.

 

I agree, nothing wrong w/ANACS grading and no membership. Ditto for ICG. SEGS has no membership either but IMO, a less popular service.

If you want the most return on your grading fee, PCGS holders usually bring more than NGC; but I prefer NGC (first tier TPGS) or ICG (second tier TPGS).

 

Remember, today's yellow ANACS (Driving Force LLC ownership) is very, very different from yesterday's ANACS (ANA or even Amos Press ownership). Just saying "ANACS" is a mistake.

 

"Mistake" in what way? They have some good, long time professionals still working there.

Mistake cause the slabs are not worth as much or because the grading sucks IYO?

 

Mistake in referring to them like they have been a single company throughout it's history when it has been several different ones that just kept the same name.

 

The old anacs holders seem to be spot on with the grading most of the time but the new holders are very inaccurate. NGC or PCGS is always the better choice hands down

 

Sample Slabs has a few sentences on each grading service and describes the generations in broad categories. I admit it does not have details on the many changes in holder designs. For example, I divide ANACS into three generations: white, blue, and yellow. Conder's excellent 2003 book lists about 15 varieties of white ANACS holders.
Showing that people want slab information, Fred Lake Books recently auctioned a copy of Conder's book for $126.50.

 

That's quite pleasing to hear. Conder's contributed enough to numismatics as a whole to deserve the good feeling of seeing one's work trade at a significant premium in the secondary market.

 

And there are about a half dozen more minor variations caused by having different suppliers of the white insert. and the book doesn't address the slight change in the size of the slabs.

I admit I was pleased to see that there was active interest in bidding on the book.. That was the first time one has come up for sale in a numismatic literature auction. What surprised me was that it became the most expensive lot in the sale!

 

Conder: Any future plans for an updated edition?

 

I will.

 

Plans, sure. Getting me to actually gather the mertial into one place and write, that's the hard part.

The first edition will probably show up on the Newman Numismatic Portal first. They have asked for it.