Congrats on a great score and doing the grading right! I like their system much better than the newer ones' I've had more than one piece be pristine on the reverse and not as appealing on the obverse and vv.....
Thanks, I agree, I have an 1881s Morgan with a photo grade of ms63/67, and the reverse is stunning, but it makes me think it would grade ms64 today and that is a shame.
Do you know when this policy stopped? Did it continue into the very early slab period (with the blue label/ana hologram on the reverse)? When did it stop? I'm sorry to bombard you with questions, but it might have some actual meaning in a coin that I am looking at.
I belive ANACS changed their grading formats before the went to slabs, during the last generation of photo certificate, in order to compete with PCGS. I have seen the blue ANA slabs with pr64 and pr63 grades.
Nice turn over. Im sending an 1 older ANACS next month. So I hope to get a increase if im lucky. chris
ANACS used the obv/rev grading starting when they began grading coins in 1980. At first with just the grades 60 and 65 then after April of 1980 they added 63 and 67. The other MS grades were not added until April 1987 and they continued using the obv/rev grading system until they began using slabs in late 1989.
@Tater Your coin reminds me of this thread ... Hope your coin fares better edit: which led to this thread