I have never heard this theory before.

TennesseeDave

A prominent dealer has a coin for sale in an old Anacs holder with the 2 letters followed by 4 digits and says the following statement about the holder. I have one of these holders, but have never heard this theory before.
1884-O Morgan dollar, ANACS MS65, and a simply superb coin. This holder is one of the first generation of cache-style slabs, with a serial number that contains 2 initials (of the submitter) and 4 numerals. We suppose that format proved unwieldy in fairly short order, so they then went to a six numeral serial number.

Coinstartled

Don't know, but I sure like the old holders. New ones are dreck.

CaptHenway

I left ANACS in 1984, but in the time I was there we NEVER used people's initials in cert numbers. That would have been a nightmare as far as record keeping was concerned. I would say that the dealer was mistaken.

Here is everything you ever wanted to know about ANACS certificates.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/12326383#Comment_12326383

TD

DCW

I have to say that the current ANACS holders are the fugliest out there. I much preferred the tiny little white slabs

Pnies20

If ANACS did a special revert to their old holders, similar to PCGS 30th anniversary, they could drum up some interest, IMO.

Jayyk31

Theres a method to the madness! Theres a thread on here with guys figuring out the serial #'s on the old ANA, then ANACS small holders.

blitzdude

@Coinstartled said:
Don't know, but I sure like the old holders. New ones are dreck.

I'm hearing these days anything without stickers on the slab is dreck. The coin and slab are all just background noise.

jmlanzaf

Oh, good. We managed to turn this into a CAC thread.

ChrisH821

@Coinstartled said:
Don't know, but I sure like the old holders. New ones are dreck.

Not always, I've upgraded a couple of them at PCGS.

@TennesseeDave said:
A prominent dealer has a coin for sale in an old Anacs holder with the 2 letters followed by 4 digits and says the following statement about the holder. I have one of these holders, but have never heard this theory before.
1884-O Morgan dollar, ANACS MS65, and a simply superb coin. This holder is one of the first generation of cache-style slabs, with a serial number that contains 2 initials (of the submitter) and 4 numerals. We suppose that format proved unwieldy in fairly short order, so they then went to a six numeral serial number.

There are also 4 and 5 digit numeric serial numbers. I seem to remember(hopefully correctly) that @keets has a 4 digit. I have one that's 5.

ChrisH821

My mistake, looks like it is EOC who posted one:
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/12329115/#Comment_12329115

PerryHall

@TennesseeDave said:
A prominent dealer has a coin for sale in an old Anacs holder with the 2 letters followed by 4 digits and says the following statement about the holder. I have one of these holders, but have never heard this theory before.
1884-O Morgan dollar, ANACS MS65, and a simply superb coin. This holder is one of the first generation of cache-style slabs, with a serial number that contains 2 initials (of the submitter) and 4 numerals. We suppose that format proved unwieldy in fairly short order, so they then went to a six numeral serial number.

I submitted many coins to ANACS when they first started and the first two letters in the serial numbers never matched my initials so this dealer's statement is total nonsense.