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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hus.thaler, post: 8212776, member: 85490&quot;]I had a fight with ANACS a couple of years ago.&nbsp; I made a large (for me) submission of about 40 Kaiserreich-era 2/3/5 Mark coins.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t know this series, almost all of them show a portrait of the local emperor/king/duke on the obverse and the imperial eagle on the reverse.&nbsp; I was kind of peeved when I got them back and they were randomly holdered as to which side faced up.&nbsp; I took them all back to a local coin show where ANACS was accepting submissions and had a long and friendly chat/argument with the show rep about my submission.&nbsp; I complained about the ones holdered eagle-up (and also one Augsburg thaler holdered upside down) and was informed that their policy was to holder world coins with the date side up.&nbsp; I pointed out that in this one batch I got some portrait side up and some date side up, even in the same series and even with consecutive registry numbers.&nbsp; The rep kindly accepted any I wanted reholdered and got them flipped for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since that time, any time I have submitted to ANACS I always specify which side I want facing forward as I have no confidence that they have any real consistency (or care) about their world coin series slabbing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Germain to the OP&#039;s inquiry, during that conversation with the show rep, he did tell me that ANACS does have a specific policy to slab GB and Commonwealth coins portrait-down because the portrait &quot;just isn&#039;t interesting.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that&#039;s just an anecdote, but someone at ANACS did answer the question at one point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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