Is this the earliest type of ANACS slab?

fivecents

Serious Old School slab.

Russ

There are earlier ones.

Russ, NCNE

braddick

Wow! 1981. That's going way back.
If that plastic holder the encases the Morgan and the certificate isn't from ANACS, it's still pretty cool.

fivecents

Here is another old school slab produced 8 years later.

darktone

I don't remember ANACS in 1981 at all- I think I started seeing their ads around 1983 in the coin papers so this must be pretty darn early. mike

tsacch

Looks like a plain old photo cert by anacs and a home made slab with some kinda plastic melted around it......dont think its an anacs original.

ms70

I never saw one of those! Thanks for posting it!!

JRocco

I recently sent in a Walker in one of those early ANACS slabs for re-holdering- I just wanted the coin protected better- and they DOWNGRADED IT by 2 points

fivecents

The coin is housed in a cointain(sp) capsule and rolls around inside it's area of the"slab". I feel that the coin is well protected in this holder.

DominusDeus

Very cool. And it just so happens that 12/16/1981 is my birthday. Will be 23 come mid December.

JRocco

I would leave it right where it is Paul.

Newkid

I`m pretty sure it`s homemade Paul. Dad submitted several coins to them during that time and what he got back was the coin in a 2 12 x 2 12 stapled to the certificate.

JRocco

That is what I sent in Newkid, a stapled 2X2

darktone

I have seen stapled 2 1/2X 2 1/2's, the whole works laminated, the coin in Capitol holders and probably a few other ways. Conder would be the guy to ask about everything. mie

Conder101

The ANACS certificate is a fourth generation certificate and they were not sent back by ANACS in a plastic holder like that. (You can find these certificates in several different third party holders that were designed to hold both the certificate and the coin together. Capital Plastics had a very nice one. I have two or three of them.) As others have said they were returned in 2 1/2 X 2 1/2 flips (Sometimes 2X2) that had a sticker with the assigned serial number on it.

The fourth thru eighth generation certificates seem to be the easiest to locate followed by 10, 9, 2, 3, and 1 in that order. Even harder are the "transfer" certificates. Back then the coin was registered to a specific person. If you sold it the new owner could send the certificate back to ANACS and they would issue a new one with the coin registed to the new owner. The certificate would also carry the word TRANSFER and the date of the original certification. The thing is almost no one cared about the registration so VERY VERY few certificates were ever sent back in. To date I have seen exactly four transfer certificate. One fourth generation, two fifth generation, and one sixth generation although they should exist for all through at least the eighth. (I don't remember off the top of my head if the ninth and tenth were still registered. I do know that they stopped dating the certificates with the ninth generation.)

fountainheadgold

i have been told this is after market slab , but i have seen several of these sell on ebay