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Older ANA small slab holders......any premium?
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Do they command any premium?
Worth cracking? Selling as is?
Worth cracking? Selling as is?
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yet. I like those old holders myself but do not overpay for them if I can help it... certainly not for anything too common.
Their grading standards from what I've seen have mostly been consistant with PCGS & NGC but, as you know there are overgraded and undergraded
coins in every holder. I would leave it in there personaly.
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You have sound advice above. My take . . . just as a holder collector (and ersatz numismatist).
The "alphanumeric" ANA Small Slab you have is obviously one of the first two generations of ANA holders and in general, grading was a touch more conservative (with all the caveats of "look at the coin", "there are bad coins in all holders", and "all you holder collectors are vile blasphemists who have no position or standing on these Boards and should all be banished to some deserted isle where you can eat each other and die slow deaths"). Later holders went to purely numeric cert numbers and correspondingly different grading standards.
Your answer? No. I have never paid ANY premium for alphanumeric holders although when the coins inside are solid, they have easily crossed for me to PCGS. I sent in my early Lincoln keys. The 09-SVDB stayed at 64RD to 64RD. By the way, an ANACS holder at one time in that grade was going for about $700 bucks while PCGS was $2400. Score! The 14D went from VF35 to XF40, and the 22PL went from VF35 to XF40. But, they were solid coins.
I don't play too many games at shows, but I WILL check out alphanumeric Morgans in MS65. Many times I can pick them up at a discount due to the ANACS holder, but many will cross, and occasionally, one of them will 66. Just fun . . . I am not trying to make my retirement out of them.
Bottom line . . . I have never been asked to pay a premium at any point for the alphanumerics, but I surely look at them to see if there is a solid coin inside.
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What I can attest to, though, is that the grading standards were pretty high at that time, and if CAC did sticker ANACS holders, a ton of these ANA holders would get gold CAC stickers. They definitely warrant a second (or third) look, and more often than not, are quite undergraded.
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