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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JeffC, post: 7483045, member: 90913&quot;]I learned something today regarding ANACS slabs that I&#039;d like to share. The more experienced senior members here may already know, but for the sake of those newer to the hobby (like me), I figured I&#039;d make this post.</p><p><br /></p><p>Among my hand-me-down collection are numerous slabbed coins - most by NGC and PCGS, and a few from ANACS.&nbsp; I noticed something that only pertains to the ANACS slabs.&nbsp; I see what looks to be &quot;moisture bubbles&quot; in the &quot;donut&quot; section of the slab, surrounding the coins.&nbsp; Here&#039;s what I mean:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294750[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look around the cents, you&#039;ll see a &quot;bubble ring&quot; and on the left penny, at the 12 o&#039;clock position all the way at the top, you&#039;ll see more &quot;bubbles.&quot;&nbsp; If you press down on them, they actually can move a bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>They don&#039;t always take the shape of a ring around the coin.&nbsp; On this slab, they&#039;re spread out randomly.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294751[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always assumed it was moisture that had seeped in and that there was nothing I could do.&nbsp; I chocked it up to tough luck.&nbsp; But then in January, I was given a Mayflower commemorative coin set, that were &quot;cold enameled&quot; (colorized) on one side.&nbsp; Here&#039;s one of them.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294754[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The colorized side has undergone a pigmented epoxy resin treatment, that makes it look like hard enamel and gives it a dome shape.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294755[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mayflower tokens come encapsulated and - guess what - I see bubbles on every one of them!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294759[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Because I can open these capsules, I realized it&#039;s not moisture that&#039;s causing it.&nbsp; That gave me some hope for my ANACS slabs and so I contacted ANACS on Facebook Messenger, included photos, and asked them about the cause(s).&nbsp; They confirmed that it&#039;s not moisture but a &quot;contact reaction&quot; (their words) between the slab acrylic and the material of the inner &quot;donut ring.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>That was a relief for me because I&#039;ve always assumed they were moisture related.&nbsp; So, in case you have the same issues and didn&#039;t already know, here you go! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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