A nice 1880S in an ANA holder

Bikingnut

jtlee321

I love those old ANA holders. It looks like it could possibly be nicer than a 63 as well.

coinsarefun

Love the coin, love the holders. I have quite a few, toned also.

ElKevvo

Pretty....I like the old ANACS holders also. Thanks for posting!

K

Bikingnut

Does anyone know how their numbering system worked at that time?

cecropiamoth

Love the old alpha-numeric ANACS holders, especially the 1st gen ANA ones.

Jeff

ChangeInHistory

@coinsarefun said:
Love the coin, love the holders. I have quite a few, toned also.

These holders seem to give coins the same blues, purples, around the rim. I dig them too.

cecropiamoth

@Bikingnut This should be a good starting point...

http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/BarCode.aspx

Jeff

cecropiamoth

One of my little side projects is to collect Morgans and Peace dollars (I have to like the coin) in these holders. I am slowly working towards trying to get a coin for each of the alpha codes.

My research (perhaps someone could confirm) is that the 1st generation ANA holders (gold label) begin with these codes:

CD, JK, KP, LO, LP, MJ, NJ, RD, TR, TS, WD, WF, WR and XA

The 2nd generation AMOS/ANACS holders begin with these codes:

EX, PG, PK, RE, SC, SX, WE and ZD

Jeff

cecropiamoth

To add, I think one of the codes (XA if I remember) was used strictly for show grading. Perhaps someone could confirm that.

Jeff

bsshog40

Nice!!

coinsarefun

I took a look through my pics and only have these. More are locked away in the safe.
2 ANA holders and one old ANACS holder. All of them exhibit nice natural toning,
not super toned but nice. I love them as they are reasonable and small little stackers
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logger7

Those show a type of grading that was definitely about the hobby not making money. Who were the graders there early on?

johnny9434

good stuff i like

ricko

I have one.... and maybe two... of these old slabs.... I do not recall even what coin(s) are in them..... I need to check that out....Looks like a nice old Morgan.... Cheers, RickO

asheland

Nice!

asheland

Outside of PCGS and NGC, these are my favorite slabs.

IrishMikey

@cecropiamoth said:
One of my little side projects is to collect Morgans and Peace dollars (I have to like the coin) in these holders. I am slowly working towards trying to get a coin for each of the alpha codes.

My research (perhaps someone could confirm) is that the 1st generation ANA holders (gold label) begin with these codes:

CD, JK, KP, LO, LP, MJ, NJ, RD, TR, TS, WD, WF, WR and XA

The 2nd generation AMOS/ANACS holders begin with these codes:

EX, PG, PK, RE, SC, SX, WE and ZD

Jeff

XA was the first code used. Not sure about the order after that.

anablep

Those alpha-numeric holders are my favorites. Most of my Morgan collection was housed in those slabs until I crossed a majority of them to PCGS, usually matching ANACS' grades spot on.

cecropiamoth

@coinsarefun picture of a 1st gen ANA holder with the 'RE' prefix cast some doubt for me on my research. I looked at some other notes I had written down and perhaps these three -- EX, NJ and RE might come in both the ANA and AMOS/ANACS versions. @illini420 I think you had mentioned something previously about those 'XA' prefix holders. Did they start with those first as @IrishMikey stated perhaps introducing the service at shows? If anyone else can confirm the list of prefixes to generation I would appreciate it.

Jeff

mannie gray

@logger7 said:
Those show a type of grading that was definitely about the hobby not making money. Who were the graders there early on?

Randy Campbell was one for sure and I think Mike Fahey???? I remember his face but maybe not the name.

illini420

@cecropiamoth said:
@coinsarefun picture of a 1st gen ANA holder with the 'RE' prefix cast some doubt for me on my research. I looked at some other notes I had written down and perhaps these three -- EX, NJ and RE might come in both the ANA and AMOS/ANACS versions. @illini420 I think you had mentioned something previously about those 'XA' prefix holders. Did they start with those first as @IrishMikey stated perhaps introducing the service at shows? If anyone else can confirm the list of prefixes to generation I would appreciate it.

Jeff

I do not have any first-hand information on this matter, just what I've read and learned from others who may have better information. Here's an interesting "XA" holder that I once sold... only 3 digits instead of the usual 4 digits after the two-letter code: