OK lets see what you have in those old ANACS white slabs

Easy one to vam

 

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I believe it is an 8A S/S right.

 

Not having it in hand I'm at A1 spike in first 8 going off your image

 

Wow, some serious ghosting on that 53s!
I know it's not uncommon on these, but yours is really prevalent!

 

@Paddy54 A 1A or do you mean a VAM 8a1? I will look it over again.

 

1 A now I just picked up a A 1 A which was the toned one crescent one...that one can be tricky read all the details but i see a spike at 11k 1st 8 top loop in your image...again in hand it may look different

 

It's definitely an 8A which is a spiked 8's variety.
http://www.vamworld.com/1881-S+VAM-8A

 

Don’t really have much and the bulk I’ve cracked out or crossed. As with this one that has so far been a loser. In a pcgs questionable color details slab now

 

Man, that's a great looking coin. Favorite trade dollar I've seen.

 

Here is one

 

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Those pics do it zero justice. Was just trying to show the slab

 

Lots and lots of beautiful/stunning pieces!

 

Understand, I'm somewhere between AR and CDO (CDO is like OCD, but properly alphabetized). So I have a collection of ANACS SWH by s/n prefix. It started with the 2 letter / 4 number (XXnnnn) from the ANA and early Amos days...


(ANA started the SWH in 1989 and sold ANACS to Amos Press in 1990)
(Amos Press sold ANACS to Anderson Press [Parent company of Whittman - RedBook] in March 2005 - interestingly, this sale is left off of the ANACS history page...)
(Anderson sold ANACS to Driving Force LLC in 2007)
(Driving Force LLC is gone and a new, opaque LLC owns ANACS)


Poking at the ANACS database, however, revealed some interesting things. When they loaded the XXnnnn data, they converted the XX to a prefix number, so they became 1nnnn, 2nnnn.

See: http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/BarCode.aspx

But there are gaps. And sure enough, 7nnnn is a valid cert. As is 0nnnn.

My collection of XXnnnn grew to include pnnnn.

This allows grouping ANACS slab#s into about ten different timegroups....

• ANA only letters
• ANA/Amos transition (letters in use by both, EX and RE)
• Amos letters
• Amos early numbers (numbers that intersperse with the XX to n conversion in the database, so can't be proven as to what sequence they were used)
• Amos middle number (red A hologram)
• Amos late numbers (gold A hologram) - begins somewhere under 1M (e.g. 99xxxx is gold, but 47xxxx is red)
• Anderson early numbers
• Late Anderson SWH
• Anderson Blue label slant top slabs (started in 2004)
• Driving Force (Yellow label slant top slabs starting in 2007)

So I can post examples of just about ANYTHING you want, from cert# 75 onwards