That's amazing! Congratulations Otoh, this sale was an absolute hit! This was a win win win for everyone involved. Didn't you say you meant to do another one with Heritage soon?
Yes indeed, I am in talks with them now about that, if it goes ahead then there'll be much more variety and rares on offer this next time, I don't want to list more than the present physical crypto collectors market can comfortably absorb, but on the other hand I do want to make a bigger splash with an amazing catalogue, and maybe facilitate some whale/s to make a potential one off world class collection/s in an easy swoop if they liked, and to also allow others to pick up some of the rarer gems that are getting very hard to source nowadays, so I have inventoried for a Part 2 and am awaiting their feedback on that.
A lot of the coins I had slabbed by ANACS between 2014 and 2016, most in early 2014, when they were the only game in town for that, so they have great provenance, kind of like the old green label slabs for regular coins from PCGS, and also it wouldn't have been cost effective for anyone to make forgeries back then so that helps, the only issue though is ANACS were very slack and didn't give many of the coin's addresses on their verification links page, or photos of them, they did offer to put this right afterwards but I didn't want to keep shipping them back and forth as they were rising in value a lot, so I'll need to decide if keeping the old slabs, asking Heritage to send photos to ANACS and the addresses for them to add, or to re-slab them with NGC in 'Otoh Collection' slabs instead, I did feel that ANACS graded them rather conservatively back then as well, so it could be that they'd do better now if resubmitted to NGC, but perhaps Heritage will think that maybe the market could prefer them in the old slabs, no idea or preference myself, and I will be guided by them on it all.
Very exciting news! Thanks for that update. Hmmmm that is surely quite a predicament you've got yourself in. I would have to agree on your comparison to the green labled slabs w/ PCGS for those crypto ANACS slabs. That is definitely a tough nut to crack. Honestly you might be right though in what you said about them being graded very conservatively and might be better off getting them re-slabbed/re-graded through NGC, as you said. I think just for your namesake alone having them slabbed and labled with your collection pedigree would be more appealing to the collection but on the other hand the ANACS slabs offer a vintage feel and are semi historic being that you can't replace them becuase ANACS doesn't grade crypto anymore (Pity). Good luck with the gathering and careful consideration here! I'm sure this next sale of yours is going to be quite the sight!
In my opinion, I feel that any early graded physical crypto that is in an ANACS slab should stay that way...
The historical worth far out-weighs any bump up in grade value that you would get auctioning said coin.
Many thanks for the input MJ, much appreciated, yep these are early historical slabs, and even though ANACS was a bit of a chaos at that time with the new crypto field that they were the first to try and handle, so they made tons of rookie errors, like not putting Cas addies on the slabs, or uploading photos onto their verification links, which perhaps can be corrected via Heritage now, and even with minor typos on a couple of the addies, it probably would be best as you recommend and to leave them all as is, and I expect that is what Heritage will also advise.
A bit like error coins, they where genuine mistakes at the time and old slabs can never be repeated, even if they appear to be a bit naive in how they were trying to genuinely get a grip on all that new fangled crypto stuff back then, nearly a decade ago.
I'm all for preserving the history if possible, rather than attempting to maybe maximising potential returns, the good karma of doing the right thing will more than make up for it all.
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