How do I submit my coin to ANACS?

GoldCoinLover · March 21, 2004 10:18AM

If I don't tell ANACS my coin is damaged, (By a few small scratchs) how would they know it deserves a damage description in the slab?

Also, I'm going to send my coin into ANACS. I think you have to submit a submission form. I tried to fill one out but I can't seem to find one. Can anyone help me out and tell me how to get my coin to ANACS?

Placid · March 21, 2004 10:20AM

They will mark a coins problems on the slab if they find them. I doubt they will miss them.
Go to www.anacs.com and get a form to print out or call-email them and they will mail you one.

Aethelred · March 21, 2004 10:55AM

<< If I don't tell ANACS my coin is damaged, (By a few small scratchs) how would they know it deserves a damage description in the slab? >>

No, they would never pick up on something like scratches, cleaning or other damage. Just be sure you tell them that it is a Sovereign so they know what it is, I doubt they have ever seen one before!

trozau · March 21, 2004 10:58AM

Will the old dead king be raising the alert?

cacheman · March 21, 2004 11:04AM

to hell with the alert...a wedgie is more appropriate!

Stork · March 21, 2004 11:11AM

<< If I don't tell ANACS my coin is damaged, (By a few small scratchs) how would they know it deserves a damage description in the slab? >>

It's what they do. They will notice. They are paid to notice. They will write it down.

<< Also, I'm going to send my coin into ANACS. I think you have to submit a submission form. I tried to fill one out but I can't seem to find one. Can anyone help me out and tell me how to get my coin to ANACS? >>

Try this link: Strangely enough, anacs.com

Look at the computer screen, follow the appropriately labeled links and do what they say.

edited to add: Sorry Placid, I didn't see you had the website written down already...

spinaker2000 · March 21, 2004 11:36AM

<< No, they would never pick up on something like scratches, cleaning or other damage. Just be sure you tell them that it is a Sovereign so they know what it is, I doubt they have ever seen one before! >>

GoldCoinLover · March 21, 2004 12:03PM

Here's a form: http://www.anacs.com/download/2pages.fml .

I went there and now I have no clue what to do. To confusing

I'm sure they've seen a soverign before. Please stop the sarcasm. I was simply asking why they could tell those tiny marks from normal bag marks.

spinaker2000 · March 21, 2004 12:07PM

Because they grade with a 30x electronic microscope, and they get paid to know the difference. What you have to ask yourself is "why" do you want it slabbed?? If you have the bucks to spend on grading fees then you have the bucks to buy coins.

GoldCoinLover · March 21, 2004 12:29PM

Do you know how much they charge?

Placid · March 21, 2004 12:29PM

Do you have a printer?

http://www.anacs.com/forms/index.html

GoldCoinLover · March 21, 2004 12:53PM

<< Do you have a printer?

http://www.anacs.com/forms/index.html >>

yes I have a working printer. I clicked on the first one (here's the link: http://www.anacs.com/download/2pages.fml) however I do not see any form on that link that I can fill out. It just says the rules and stuff.

Placid · March 21, 2004 12:56PM

I put the link for the page to pick a form style to print and the form to fill out to have one mailed in my previous post.
That should get you on track.

cacheman · March 21, 2004 1:27PM

Placid, why do I get the feeling that you're going to be asked to come over, print it out, fill it out, provide the envelope and stamp, and mail it for him too?

1jester · March 21, 2004 2:30PM

"No, they would never pick up on something like scratches, cleaning or other damage. Just be sure you tell them that it is a Sovereign so they know what it is, I doubt they have ever seen one before!" --Director of Forumland Security

MSD61 · March 21, 2004 11:18PM

I apologize for sounding mean however,

Was is not you that had posted in a thread in the other forum that you had put scratches into your Sovereign to verify it was gold? As others have stated that ANACS will pick up on that damage. There is nothing you can say nor do to change the fact that the coin is now damaged and it will be reflected so on the slab. We all welcome new folks who enjoy our passion for coins and will try to help anyone we can. But it seems to me you are searching for someone to comfort you in saying that ANACS or any grading company will not notice the damage you have inflicted on your coin.

My advice, as with many others, is that if you do not want the coin to be labeled with the damage on it please do not submit it to be graded.

I apologize to my friends here if I sounded a wee bit strong,
Micheál

Aethelred · March 22, 2004 9:34AM

<< But it seems to me you are searching for someone to comfort you in saying that ANACS or any grading company will not notice the damage you have inflicted on your coin.

My advice, as with many others, is that if you do not want the coin to be labeled with the damage on it please do not submit it to be graded.

I apologize to my friends here if I sounded a wee bit strong,
Micheál >>

You are not being too strong at all. This person is a numismatic vandal who has robbed future generations from owning a nice problem free 1913 Sovereign. He deserves to take a loss on it for being such a putz. He seems to want his hand held and to be told "it's o.k." What he did is like taking a $100 bill out of your wallet and burning it to see if it is paper or holding a match up to your gas tank to see if it is full! In a word STUPID! Now he is looking for a way to slip his STUPID mistake past a grading service so he can pass this damaged coin off to some unsuspecting collector, he is trying to find a way to defraud someone else because he SCREWED UP!

satootoko · March 22, 2004 9:38AM

Hey Dead King - you are going to explode if you keep bottling up your feelings.

Come on, tell us how you really feel.

Aethelred · March 22, 2004 9:40AM

Sorry Roy, sometimes I just hold it all inside.

spoon · March 22, 2004 9:49AM

Alright now, I can understand a total newbie 'testing' a gold coin like he might have seen in movies or some odd crap like that. So I'll excuse that point (for now, see below). But, as Aethelred says, this guy made a mistake and now wants some other person to lose money because he can't accept responsibility for his own mistake. That's not excusable under any circumstance. Most people would consider it fraud.

But back to the newbie point.. it was quite a while before I figured out what bags marks refer to: If he knows jargon he knows enough to not be an idiot.

oldshep · March 22, 2004 9:56AM

OK - This guy is just yanking our chain and playing us - I, from this post on, will not acknowledge any more posts from him.
Shep

Aethelred · March 22, 2004 9:57AM

I agree spoon, knowingly passing off a problem coin is the same as stealing. I guess that is why I got my panties in such a wad!

GoldCoinLover · March 22, 2004 11:04AM

<< If I don't tell ANACS my coin is damaged, (By a few small scratchs) how would they know it deserves a damage description in the slab?
tell me how to get my coin to ANACS? >>

Now that I re-read this part I realize it seemed like perhaps I was plotting to do fraud. This is totally not the case and I was just wondering how they could tell the scratchs I made from normal bag marks and wear. My coin is damaged and I will tell them if they ask. I was not plotting to do this ...

I feel the same way as I did on the other forums. Although the other forums you could cuss, and it was all hell. I don't want to experience it again. If this gets any worse when I am trying to be honest as I can and friendly as I can and when I get constant flames like this it is not cool.

WhiteTornado · March 22, 2004 9:49PM

Call ANACS. They will send you a sort of "welcome" kit, including a submission form, a plastic flip, and an insert bag. They are very helpful if you give them a call. Nice thing about the form is that it includes copies and a pre-printed submission number. Better for tracking your submission with them. The form's directions are pretty simple. I just submitted my first ever anything a couple of weeks ago (a 1913 Indian Quarter Eagle).

Enjoy.

291fifth · March 22, 2004 10:05PM

In the past few years ANACS has been especially careful. They will net grade for most any problem. Note that they will bodybag coins with PVC or active corrosion. Your chance of slipping something by them is remote.

GoldCoinLover · March 23, 2004 6:20AM

<< In the past few years ANACS has been especially careful. They will net grade for most any problem. Note that they will bodybag coins with PVC or active corrosion. Your chance of slipping something by them is remote. >>

PLEASE understand I'm not trying to slip though anything. I was just wondering how they could tell the scratchs I made from normal bagmarks from circulation. I guess its because of the size of the bagmarks.?

GoldCoinLover · March 23, 2004 6:21AM

I gave them a call and I did indeed have the form filled out. I'll send my coin in tommorrow

Aethelred · March 23, 2004 7:53AM

<< PLEASE understand I'm not trying to slip though anything. I was just wondering how they could tell the scratchs I made from normal bagmarks from circulation. I guess its because of the size of the bagmarks.? >>

1. Scratches are different from bagmarks. Bagmarks are normal and one would expect a coin to pick some up during the early stage of it's life. Scratching a coin is damage and if severe enough will result in a bodybag at PCGS and NGC or a net grade at ANACS.

2. Bagmarks are, as a general rule, created at the mint. As the name should imply, coins that are intended for circulation are bagged and shipped to banks. In the process they pick up small marks from contact with other coins. Once a coin is circulated wear and not bagmarks are the primary concern.

3. If you are trying to get something over on someone you will fail, so whatever!

spinaker2000 · March 23, 2004 7:57AM

Can't find that beating a dead horse icon anywhere!

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cacheman · March 23, 2004 2:19PM

I've marked my calendar 90 days from today to herald the return of the pos coin and the whining we shall be made to endure.

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