Early anacs V nickel

Picked this up in a local antique store a couple years ago for 30 bucks. I hadn't seen one in a capital holder like this. Thought it was really cool, and probably a bit under graded. The pitting around some of the letters and stars is pretty interesting.

 

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Nice pickup; I've never seen it, thanks for sharing.

 

That's a nice photo certificate Anacs!

They are not common but also not rare. A few show up occasionally on ebay. The price you paid was fairly good (they can go for more on ebay)

Here is some history on these written by a forum member:

http://samplecoinslabs.com/ANACS Photo Certs Type 1 thru 10 article with TD quotes1.pdf

And there are plenty of good threads about these, like this one:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/anacs-photo-certificates.246560/

 

I say a tad bit under grade, nice slab

 

Anyone have an idea what the pitting around the date, under the chin and around some of the stars might be from?

 

Cool holder and nice coin. Love the way the grade was broken down on those!

 

If you gently hit the side of the holder you can maybe make the V Nickel rotate back into the correct position.

 

Thanks for posting that info on the ANACS Photo Cert's. I've started to keep an eye out for them. It's nice to get the info regarding them.

 

You're welcome! The one you should really thank though is @Robert Paul who wrote it!

 

Nice. @Conder101 & @Burton Strauss III might like to see how it's displayed

 

I have several of those holders. They were made, after market by Capitol Plastics. They still use the little plastic screws to this day.

There are also similar ones with metal screws (probably made by somebody else) and I even have one that is riveted closed.

There is nothing that is new and novel (it's 3 sheets of plastic with six drilled/tapped screw holes), the most you could have gotten was a design patent as the original concept was patented in 1960 and had expired (https://patents.google.com/patent/US2998126A/en)

 

Also interesting how 3 of 4 graded it 60/60 and 1 graded it 63/60 - also the surface was below average.

Even in those days, an MS60 with below average surface was Canine.

 

Can you get a better shot of the date?

 

This is the best I could do with my cell and loupe

 

I have one of these. Its a walker though. Same cert and holder. The holder was made by capital plastics i believe, specially for this photo cert. I like how they say who it is registered with also. Here is mine:


If you google old anacs photo certs there is quite a bit of info on them that can tell you about when it was graded.

 

See the pitting around the date, stars and under the chin? Think its from rusted dies?

 

The pitting was common, the mint was still not accustomed to working with the nickel, a very hard metal.

also, this looks like the die may have just rusted.

 

Rust pitting on a die produces positive results on a coin's surface, since it's a negative on the die. Do these features rise above the surface, or are they inset?