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Bring back the old Anacs small slab?
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I'm surprised with the focus on retro holders, that no one has brought back the minimalist Anacs small white slab? Were there any problems with those?
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Yeah, those were great slabs. Current ones look cheap.
I liked them too. The width was 2" and they would fit nicely in standard coin boxes designed to hold flips and 2x2"s. They could handle all US coins with the exception of the Pan-Pac $50 gold slugs.
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When buying slabbed ANACS coins, I put a premium on the ANACS little white slabs, Zero premium on the ANACS Blue Slabs, and a negative premium on the ANACS yellow slabs.
Do you even look at the coin?
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You tell me ......
My understanding is that the old white and Blue label Anacs slabs have no grade guarantee like the gold ones have.
Yup, I have a bunch of the old ANACS holders. I really like them. Wish they kept it around longer !!!
I love the old white ANACS holders, but I do separate them out. The old ANA holders I have a much higher trust in compared to the more recent ones with serial numbers in the 7 digits. As for the holder themselves, if ANACS was still using those as opposed to the mustard yellow rounded top ones they are now, I'd consider using the service.
For all of my raw coins, I have discovered the BCW coin slab that is almost identical in size and looks to the old ANACS holders. I have a couple boxes full of them and they really look nice in those holders, plus they stack really nicely.
I wish they would bring 'em back.
The new ANACS holders are hideous. Color and shape. They would improve their business with a holder redesign, for sure.
Loved those days. The nickname for these is soapbox. At the time I had suggested keep the holders just redo the graphics for a more modern look but they wanted to be more like the other tpg’s. Oh well life marches on
These early ANA holders are conservatively graded ( mostly) and worth a premium IMO. Back in the day the later ANA were considered loosely graded.
I was thinking the thread title could be: will PCGS ever issue a smaller slab? (Because these huge ones take up sooooo much room)!
He who knows he has enough is rich.
Here's a consecutive serial numbered pair of ANA holders I picked up at a show earlier this year. I just couldn't break them up.
Nice!
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On draw back was that there were limits as to what ANACS could put into them. I don't think that they could slab the $50 gold slugs and the Pan-Pac commemorative $50 gold coins because they were too large.
While I love the small convenient size of the old small holders, the downside is the are so easy to break. Drop one on a concrete floor at a show and you will see what I mean.
It probably wouldn't be that expensive to duplicate the best features of the old white holders, make the plastic harder, go past the copyrights with a slightly different holder, and give collectors the option at least for a few bucks extra. ICG could do that I would think.
Is this considered ANACS small slab?
I have a few Morgan$, slabbed and raws. I don't usually collect error coins and/or varieties but wanted to know how to check for VAM-1 designation on this coin. Just a curiosity so any information from Morgan variety expert out there, I would appreciate your input and looking forward to learn from you. Thanks.
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Something tells me anacs isn't certifying many $50 Pan-Pacs anyway. They could have offered a special oversized holder much like the other major TPGS's and kept the nice small holder, seems like it is universally liked.
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Not an issue with the 99.9% of the coin collectors who will never own a Pan-Pac $50 gold slug. There's also a limit as to what PCGS and NGC slabs can house as far as US coins are concerned. They both had to create special oversized slabs for the 5 oz silver ATB series of coins.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Yes that is considered a small Anacs slab.
To learn about VAMs, start here:
http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/Home
(VAM World website)
I own dozens of the original small white ANACS slabs. Mainly SLQs, Barber material, and some off-center Indian Cents. Love the little white 'coffins'. Can't bring myself to cross them over to PCGS plastic.
ANACS should have NEVER moved to their new holders, which are completely unappealing to me.
Dave
Is ANACS even the same company when comes to the new holders?
Edited for typo.
If you send in the old Anacs white holders, they will not put them in their gold holders but blue ones, due to ownership issues.
Thought so I remember reading something about a swap of people with another grading firm.
ICG is the "new" ANACS. And ANACS is the "new" ICG if I'm not mistaken.
Isn't it crazy!
Wait, how does the blue holder fit in? I thought it was a transitional thing...
Collector, occasional seller
Apples and Oranges.........
How will my ANACS-certified coins be reholdered?
On January 1, 2008 ANACS, under its new ownership, relocated from Austin, Texas to suburban Denver. Coins that were certified by ANACS under previous ownership will be reholdered in ANACS's blue label. Coins that were certified since January 1, 2008 under the new ownership, will be reholdered using ANACS's gold label.
http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/FAQServices.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Why would you want to reholder a small ANACS slab?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Why in the heck did ANACS fall by the wayside?
ANACS had the best holder EVER (AFAIC), so maybe it happened to do with.....?
Slab yes, grading no.
do you see any scratches on these holders? I think there is a patent on the plastic
No these don’t fit in current storage boxes.
Sometimes trying to keep up with the "Jones" does not work out...
Really, really bad cell phone images of a 1921 Peace in one of the old white ANACS alpha-numeric slabs I found at a local show a few years ago. The coin looks way better than it appears in these images, more to just show a Peace dollar in one of these holders...don't see many Peace, almost always Morgans.
Jeff
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