Submitting coins?

I have a few coins I want to submit and was thinking about using ANACS. The reason was the price and turn around time. I know most on here prefer PCGS followed by NGC but I'm not working on a registry set and by comparison I have found the grading of the three to be very very close. The coins I'm planing to submit are not high dollar rarities just nice higher grade coins. I wanted them slabbed for storage and to see if my grading ability was in the ball park with the TPG. please feel free to give me your opinion on the subject.

 

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I have used them in the past just to authenticate some coins and to have them with a basic grade for appraisal purposes. These were coins I inherited and will never sell. I am going to send in 10 more during their summer special. Most have been cleaned, but for $10 each, I can't pass that up.

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Right that was my thinking too the price is good. How did you feel about the accuracy of their grading?


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Your case sounds like Anacs might be a decent idea. Wait for one of their specials where it would be around $10-$12 per coin for 10 coins and try it out. If you are not looking to sell, it is a good way to judge your grading ability and have a less expensive option for slabbed coins. If some coin is deserving of being sent to PCGS or NGC, you can always try to cross it or crack are submit when the time to sell arrives.

 

They were pretty much all Gold pieces which is not my specialty, so I can't really say. I don't feel like they were over graded though. Most came back AU-MS62, which tells me they were being conservative. I really wanted them to authenticate my 1916 Mercury dime which I swear I see the D, but they say no.

 

Also note that Anacs is good for Morgan vams as they recognize more different kinds than the other companies.

As for the grading, they may even be more conservative lately. Some of the coins I have sent were graded lower than anticipated, but I did also get a few to grade higher.

 

In my experience, this is not true. A VAM is a VAM. Pay the fee, you'll either get the attribution or a refund. However, I will say that you'll have a better chance of getting a VAM on an 1881-S Morgan at ICG or ANACS than at the other two.

 

There's a special on right now. First 10 coins $99.00 plus free shipping.

 

John Roberts is the head of anacs vam attribution department. He is a prolific vammer. Anacs, er john, will idintify all vams period. Send a morgan or peace dollar in and the true vam will be on the label. Pcgs & ngc will only attribute the "list" vams and they make mistakes all the time. John does not. Any vammer worth their salt will either use anacs to slab and identify the vam or submit ngc & pcgs slabs to @messydesk's www.varslab.com VSS service for his sticker. These guys don't make mistakes and the tpgs do all the time. I would never choose an ngc or pcgs label attribution over anacs or messydesk's. Period.

And nobody should waste their time with icg, SEGS or any other. Pcgs, ngc & anacs are THE only appropriate and market acceptable grading services. Period... No matter what insider says

 

I like your reason for ANACS. $10 for a nice holder is a great deal in my opinion. I did the same with ANACS and PCI many years ago. If I were getting ready to sell a coin, I would go with PCGS or NGC.

 

First, I forgot to mention John Roberts (as I intended to do) in my post.

Next, I have found it is a good idea to listen to the opinion of others and then see for yourself. @Cascade seems to be an informed collector and on this thread he has posted some good info. However, and this is the big one - I doubt very seriously if he has ever sent a coin to SEGS, ICG, NGS, or PCGS. If he has, I'll bet the number is less than five. So... If that is the case, I'll put his reply as mostly hearsay, except the part about ANACS, and @messydeck.

 

I haven't sent a single coin to the others and never will. They are SUB-PAR. Period. Exclamation point x10. It's a waste of good money. Maybe in the future things will change and they will become acceptable but today they are bottom of the "barely reputable" barrel. It's pretty simple insider. It's not about how good or bad they are, who owns them, etc. It's 100% about market acceptability. As for pcgs, I've submitted more coins to them than grains of sand on Waikiki Beach, or so it feels like. Maybe you mistakenly threw pcgs in there. And yes, I've also submitted to ngc & anacs to a lesser extent

The only reason I would submit to any other would be icg and only if I wanted a contemporary counterfit slabbed and only because the big (and only) 3 won't slab them.yet

 

Things are a little different in the southeast where SEGS and ICG have a strong following from the number of their slabs in dealers cases. ANACS less so.

Nevertheless: Well then, your opinion carries more weight than I gave it.

 

What is a VAM? Thanks!

 

http://www.vamworld.com/VAM

 

Weird!! Thanks

 

0-p-p0.

 

OK - I'll bite gain. What does your reply mean? 0-p-p0.

 

Are you talking to yourself?

 

I have sent a few low grade coins to ANACS on their specials because I just wanted them in slabs, but not worth the higher cost with my NGC membership. I have been satisfied with them.