This is not meant to be a discussion about the accuracy of the various grading services. I primarily collect errors and have found ANACS to be cheaper and sufficient for most of my coins. Besides a propensity for under grading coins struck on less than complete planchets, they are okay. I recently sent in about a dozen coins using one of their "specials" for coins under $500. Several of the coins needed "help" and I decided to use their conservation option. It was rather inexpensive (it's currently $19 for up to 20 coins) and I must say I was very pleased with the result. Just passing this along in case anyone else is considering using this service.
what is this conservation option you speak of? I have never dealt with ANACS before. As stated below my mood I am a PCGS man
Not intending to disparage ANACS in any way, but it would be interesting to learn how these coins would fare after the ANACS conservation if they were cracked out and submitted to either NGC or PCGS for grading. Chris
Ive used their conservation services once and I was very pleased. I used NGC's several times and I have been very pleased. I have used PCGS's once and was not pleased at all.
I was thinking of starting my own thread asking about experiences with ANACS' conservation service. I have a number of coins that I'd consider running through it. Thanks for posting your experiences -- I'd love to see some before-and-after shots, too!
Most often the results have absolutely nothing to do with "who" does the conservation and everything to do with the coin that was being conserved. What I mean by that is that it is not the conservation method itself or who does it that matters, but rather what the specific problem was to begin with (not all coins are even candidates for conservation), and whether or not there were any underlying problems on the coin that were or are hidden by the problem you are trying to have fixed by conserving the coin. It is exponentially harder to determine if a coin is a candidate for conversation than it is to do the actual conservation. Anybody can do the conservation - even you - if you have the knowledge. But nobody can look at a coin and know with any degree of certainty if the coin be conserved with a good result.
