New ANACS Fall Special

Is it $500 per coin or $500 total out of the 15 US mint coins?

 

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That stinks!

 

Has any attempted to submit $25 platinum eagles under the economy level service? Technically speaking, they're not gold...

 

32 business days and counting.

 

Mine shipped the exact day they predicted. Maybe these specials are starting to overwhelm them and are falling behind...

I just saw they extended the fall special too. If I had an extra $139 I'd send some more.

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Today makes 35 business days, and counting. I really think ANACS is trying their best to match PCGS's standard of excellence, with regard to turnaround times.

 

I never knew ANACS to be that slow! Wonder what is up over there? I should hate to see that grading service go under. Perhaps you could try another TPGS. There may be one with the same fee per coin and much faster service. Another trick is to get a small group together and pool your submission for a better rate.

 

I'm sending in an MS63 1916-S half dollar now in the very first ICG style holder, to NGC. To me, it looks like a 64. Big spread. When I first laid eyes on it, I thought it was a nice 1946. 16-S.

 

Should have cracked it out first. Please let us know the result when you get it back in a month or two.

 

Oh I will be cracking it, tonight. Thank goodness it's a coin that even THEY can't find some wacky stupid special label to put in the slab. Oops, maybe they just came up with a "footprints for your Walker" label.

 

Got in touch with customer service. They said it's because a couple of my coins needed to be sent to consultants, which adds three weeks to the overall time. I was told another week to week and a half before they get those coins back, so at least I know why it's taking so long.

 

Care to share what the coins were?

 

I didn't ask.

 

Colonials? Foreign?

 

Gee I'm tempted, but I don't really have 15 valuable coins! I guess I'd have to send in the 1882, 3, 4, and 9-CC Morgans, and maybe the 1888-S $10, but other than that... My most expensive coin is worth like 50 bucks

 

I think it must be my cousin's dragon dollar.

 

That is scary! NGC has at least one foreign grader, Jay who is very good with Chinese coins. They have an office in China and several graders go over during the year. They have been to the Mint over there; but that is not as good as studying coins in a museum.

Unfortunately, few were interested in Chinese numismatics forty to fifty years ago and I have learned that not many of these coins were sent in for authentication back then when NO DECPTIVE fakes existed.

Now, IMO, the majority of US collectors/dealers/TPGS are flying blind and have been trying to learn on the go using genuine coins and the decent counterfeits that have been assimilated into the market and have been considered genuine over the years. GOOD LUCK!

 

Well, I think it'll be okay. My cousin's uncle got the coin (with others) in the 30s, and it's been in the family since then. The coin looked authentic to me (passed visual and physical property tests), so I told him to just submit it for authentication, if nothing else, because it would have a professional verification of what we knew was probably the case already. I didn't think it would be a fake, unless it was a period counterfeit, as it was acquired from a jeweler during a period that predates most modern counterfeiting techniques.

Edit: I should mention, the jeweler was in Guangdong. The coins were acquired by the family in China.

 

Well, 41 business days now puts ANACS beyond PCGS' submission return standard. I'm wondering if their consultant lost whichever coins were supposedly submitted to them.