Determining when an ANACS piece was graded?

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 21, 2006 11:29AM

  that can be determined by a picture/description of the slab itself.

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• coinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭

  August 21, 2006 11:43AM

  What is the criteria? Or is that some big secret?

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 21, 2006 11:55AM

  there are different types of slabs for ANACS the same as there are different types of slabs for PCGS and NGC slabs. each type has a timeframe that can be associated with it, when it was first used and when it changed.
  
  no big secrets, for kripesake, there's an entire book on the subject by forum member condor101. the easiest way to make a determination without the book is to either PM Mike or post a picture here.
  
  there's nothing sinister.

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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  August 21, 2006 11:19PM

  You can't get an exact date, just a time period range based on when a particular slab type was in use. Unfortunately some of those periods are rather long because ANACS did not change their designs as frequently.
  
  Real quickly
  ANACS 11 two letter four number serial#, has PNG logo on hologram Feb 89 to early 1990
  ANACS 12 two letter four number serial#, has red pyramid ANACS logos on hologram . early 90 to 1992
  ANACS 13 Same hologram, 19 character barcode, serial # all numbers. 1992 to mid 1995
  ANACS 14 Same but pyramids on holograms now either greenish or silver-gray Mid 1995 to April 2000
  ANACS 15 Same but barcode now 19 characters long April 2000 to Feb 2006.
  ANACS 17 New shell design. ANACS logo by description and above grade oval Feb 2006
  ANACS 18 Same shell, Logo to left of grade oval. Border and fill of logo in gold Late Feb 2006
  ANACS 19 Same but border and fill of logo in silver Early March 2006
  ANACS 20 Same but font on top label and description now bold Late march 2006 on
  ANACS 21 Small old stye slab blue ANACS logos used as underprint on label Feb 2006 on. Used for problem coins
  
  ANACS 14 hologram is described as greenish or silver-gray because I can't tell which it is (colorblind) but it definitely isn't the red seen on ANACS 12 and 13.
  
  ANACS 16 is the same as 14 but has no barcode. These were used to slab shipwreck recovered cob coins, apparently for a particular company.
  
  More research is still needed on the older ANACS slabs because they come in two different sizes (about 1 mm difference in size) and as of yet I haven't nailed them down to a particular time period. It almost seems like they must have had a bunch of the older small size and they just kept one sealing machine in operation that did the small shells until they were used up because they seem to have been issued across more than one type and concurrently with the larger shells of the same varieties. The two sizes seem to be available for ANACS 13 and 14, possibly 12 as well.

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