Good Morning everyone.. I bought this 1909s Lincoln to put in a album. As you see "I hope" its in a ANACS case and graded. I haven't fiddled with it yet to try and open it. Is there a way without destroying the case? I'm guessing they seal these ANACS? Some might say to keep it in the case but again i'm planning to put it in a album.
The slab will be destroyed. I think I read here on CoinTalk that a vise holding the edges will crack it open when you apply pressure slowly.. @lordmarcovan I think has some information in the process.
If you choose to use this method, you should wrap the slab in a towel because the coin might fall out.
Good advice, on top of it maby hitting the floor how many times have we dropped a coin and had it roll all over the house and sometimes taking a day to find it, if we even do
I have my own slab cracking technique, but it does not involve a vise or any other tools. (You can skip most of my excessive blather in that thread and go right to the animated GIFs.)
That was too funny! I opened it, or better put cracked it open. Seemed it was glued at the bottom or treated with heat to seal it. Top seemed to fit with grooves. I found that the penny was in a big rubber seal which was cool..
No more of a butcher approach with this. I have probably 3 dremel's in my tool box and really should of done it right. But i'm really not a grade person, well on this coin anyways. I personally don't know why someone paid to have this particular one graded? I do understand people favor collecting graded coins though.
Can anyone tell just when these were ANAC graded? and how much? Here is a semi key 1911S penny with VF details bit labeled "corroded" Why, a gamble it would sell for more if graded? Its not my coin, I just happened to see it on ebay.
The slab will be forever destroyed but be careful not to damage the coin. The label is ok to keep but it will prove nothing.
I think ANACS rolled out those newer holders in the larger size format around the mid-2000s, maybe around 2005 or so? I don’t remember exactly when. But it was in that decade (the “oughts”). As to why anyone ever decided to submit something, you really can never know.
All I can tell you is after September 2008. ANACS started using that style slab in September 2007 but with a blue label, the company was sold in December 2007 and the new owner kept the blue labels until September 2008 when they switched to the yellow ones. If there have been variations in the yellow labels I haven't kept up.
