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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 1717165, member: 41863&quot;]My last coin is my favorite story and probably makes me feel the best about this overall experience and also another confidence booster. </p><p><br /></p><p>A few months ago I sent off a Walking Liberty half dollar to ANACS (didn&#039;t want to pay for any membership fees at the time). This coin was a 1917 S Reverse Mint Mark in pretty nice shape. It was pretty dark in color but nothing I thought was suspicious. Anyway it came back from ANACS as AU Details with the designation of &#039;Artificial Toning&#039;. I was pretty bummed so I set the coin aside and just kind of forgot about it. Then oneday about 2 weeks later I was gathering up the coins I wanted to send to NGC so I had the brilliant (it was my first time) idea to crack it out of the ANACS slab and see if dipping it would remove the &#039;Artificial Tone&#039;. So I took the coin to my LCS, explained what I was doing and they let me bust open the slab and dip the coin there so I didn&#039;t have to buy a whole bottle of cleaner. At first I thought maybe I had messed up the coin, but then I realized it was already &#039;messed up&#039; from ANACS&#039; designation so I thought I didn&#039;t have much to lose and it would be a fun learning experience. Overall the coin cleaned up nice but I still see some dark spots left over from the toning. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well when I received my email stating the grades I about fell out of my chair. My half dollar came in at a very nice problem free AU-53. This was definitely a major confidence booster and assured me that my coin collector saviness was moving right along. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the pictures. I wish I would&#039;ve taken some before I sent it in with the coin in the old slab. I do however have the removed label from the ANACS slab. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]265310.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]265311.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]265312.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all it was a great experience for me. All my grades came back as expected or slightly better and the turn around time was great, definitely quicker than my ANACS submittal and the tracking feature was a nice bonus. </p><p><br /></p><p>What do you guys think?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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