I hate their yellow slabs, it's like they don't have a marketing department at all. It's like Jill Biden designed it to match her drape like dresses. That's not political, it's just the God's honest truth. Make it more eye appealing. I love the old soapbox slabs. Simple and to the point. I love their customer service though, even being that it is slow for economy grading. No membership required, just send it in and get discounts for 10 or more. Save more by going to the coin show and not paying the USPS thieves for shipped insurance and lost patron saints fee of them losing them prior to arriving to Colorado.
Ok, to be honest PCGS is the only slabs I collect, so I guess iam that guy...LOL why? its pretty simple they sell for allot more money then 2nd and 3rd tier companies like ANACS and ICG, I just roll on by and I am not the only one that feels that way just go on eBay and you will find a very limited amount of coins graded by them, we all have are favorites
I only buy ANACS when I think I can get a better grade elsewhere if I crack it. No limit, just circumstantial.
I am not sure you would be able to upgrade from ANACS to a place like PCGS just tighter grading standers there.
If I'm buying, I don't care which company's plastic it's in, as I'm buying the coin not the slab; if anything precisely because ANACS has less perceived value in the market, I might be able to get a nice coin cheaper if it's ANACS graded. You can't really deny the reality that PCGS and NGC are more marketable than ANACS, but I've rarely seen the claim that ANACS is any worse at grading, and sometimes they're actually more strict than the big two. I buy coins because I want them in my collection, not because I have any intention of ever selling them if I can help it, so I don't really care about what the market thinks about whose slab a coin is in. At any rate I tend to prefer raw coins anyway; I've submitted more coins to ANACS than the number of coins I've bought already in their slabs; they're cheaper, faster, and don't require a membership, and I mainly getting coins graded not for the sake of making them easier to sell, but to make them easier to protect and store. (Two coins I bought in their slabs I've broken out of them!)
I think this depends on the coins, the era when they were graded, the grader, the day of the week... I've only submitted Canadian coins to ANACS and have no intention of ever crossing anything to PCGS, so I can't say for sure. But many of my MS63 grades I had pegged at MS64, and I can find many examples of PCGS MS63 online for specific coins that are a lot more banged up than my ANACS MS62 ones. It's difficult to make a generalization about this.
I've already got my package assembled, sealed, and ready to ship, but I may just cut it open to update the contents. After taking a closer look at the octagonal, I noticed some directional lines indicating a possible details- cleaned grade of I submit it elsewhere. Still likely to get the "details" portion if it was wiped clean at any point regardless of the TPG, but at least anacs will give the number grade along with it. And I looked more into CACG today and, while I'd prefer to give them a shot with a membership, they apparently don't cover any varieties on Washington quarters which will very likely be included in a larger submission I'll be making at some point in the relatively near future. But I very well may cut this package open and include that gold. I'm trying to keep this submission smaller, but adding one more wouldn't increase the cost substantially and getting that tiny little thing into a holder would definitely make it easier to not lose!
My very first submission I tried to keep things light. As it ended up, I toted a box and submitted 50 coins at the ANACS booth at a coin show.
Pickin I was looking at some semi-key Morgan dates today and wandered over to the PCGS registry for a graded coin for sale and landed in a place where past auctions had occurred. For the life of me I can't remember what date and mint I was looking at but I saw a coin that auctioned in MS64 that went for over a thousand more dollars than ones that were graded in 65, same year and mint. I drilled down on it and it was one of those rainbow toned ones. I'm not talking about a super rare date, but that really surprised me what premiums people will pay for attractive toning. We need to get the coin lab up and cooking.