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Something Interesting from ANACS
MICHAELDIXON
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I send coins to 3 of the services to include PCGS. Today, I received the results from my last ANACS submission. ANACS has started listing reasons for grades received.
These are the 2 comments received:
Kept out of a higher grade due to surface hair lining.
Thumb prints all over coin. 
I thought this was interesting and I apologize if this has been posted before.
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I think that is a great idea! I'm sure we have all wondered why a coin didn't grade as anticipated. A written explanation, while maybe not agreed with every time, is at least something to grow on.
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That's a helpful/value-added addition. I can think of reasons for and against, but is this info just for the submitter or permanently tagged to the coin for any future buyer to read?
I think that i read somewhere that "notes" are taken for each coin graded, as to which service, i dont recall. I have feeling that would slow down the process even more. But, if they have coin(s) in their possession for this long, what does an extra week matter?
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We've always had a grader comments section on the packing slip, and it does get used from time-to-time, especially for varieties. Hopefully we'll continue to use it more.
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I'd ask, before or after the graders handled it.
It does not show up on the Verification page for the coin.
Love it. Great idea to help sharpen our eye before submitting.
Dave
That's cool!
I once submitted a green sticker CAC coin to CAC for sticker review in the hope of it receiving a gold sticker. The coin was superb for the grade, but did have a rather prominent fingerprint (might have been entire palm print!) on the obverse. It came back with its green sticker still on it and JA stuck a red sticker on the obverse with arrows pointing all around with "Fingerprint" written on it. It made me laugh.
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I used to get hand-written, generally friendly notes from Randy Campbell when he was at ICG. The good thing with a smaller service is better customer service at times, like a club member who got a call telling him that if they let them dip some residue, etc. off a coin it would likely upgrade.
That reminds me of a very old story (over 160 years ago). When Mrs. Lincoln was being interviewed by a reporter from the New York Times, he asked her, “Other than the assassination, how was the play?” 🤣
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ANACS once called me to let me know one of my grandmother’s silver dollars was an early die state “Scarface” variety, and to ask if I’d like that attributed.
This was before I even knew the variety existed.
That coin was just going to be a throw-in (I was going to give one nice graded silver dollar from her collection to every family member, but I was one short. So I picked the oldest dollar she had and decided I’d keep that one.) It went from the least valuable coin to the most valuable.
And I wouldn’t have even known unless ANACS had called to let me know. I always appreciated that.
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But all fingerprints are not alike, right. One can be quite obvious over another that is extremely light. And perhaps away from the main focal area of a coin. So, grading still remains an ambiguous equation.
Leo
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For multiple reasons, I suspect ANACS is using computerized coin grading.
Maybe just for certain coins, or perhaps a finalizer still lays eyes on the coin.
I don’t think it’s improbable that these comments are computer generated.
I could be wrong, call it a hunch.
Over on the sports card side of grading. Many submitters would like to see these types of notes on why their cards merited a low grade.
I just had grades post on my first ANACS submission in decades. I sent in a few error coins where I was unsure of their authenticity. The three coins that did not grade got notes on the results page like "Damaged outside the Mint" and "Not a genuine error, overstruck with false dies." I think that's great customer service sharing that information.
Sean Reynolds
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Sounds similar to JA giving a reason why a coin didn't sticker at CAC. This is a move in the right direction for ANACS and sets them above some of the other TPGS.