ANACS Soap Bar Lovers Unite!

OAKSTAR

Post'em, if you gott'em. Since I'm here, I'll start. I love these small holders. Forget the coin, post the slab. 😂 😉

mikee999

yeah!!

mikee999

coinbuf

SoCalBigMark

Love that 15 D.

PerryHall

I always liked the small ANACS slabs and felt that the competition's slabs were larger than they needed to be. They could fit in a box for 2"x2" holders and they were big enough to hold every US coin ever issued with the exception of the $50 Pan-Pac Expo slugs which very few collectors will ever own. Due to their smaller size, they are more efficient for storage especially in a SDB.

Jzyskowski1

Can do. 😁. First slab I ever bought.. 93-94 , Denver, coin shop off N. Wadsworth blvd, as I recall

ricko

Just happen to have one close by... Cheers, RickO

MWallace

gumby1234

Love the soap bars. Here's a few.

UpGrayedd

Here's a few of mine.

justindan

Soldi

The more we get around the hobby; the more you realize ANACS can grade coins.

P0CKETCHANGE

Here’s one that used to be in an old soapbox—it was the first certified coin I ever bought, when I graduated from throwing random Kennedy halves and SBAs in an old jewelry box.

It’s nice to have the TrueView and have it part of my Registry type set, but I kind of regret crossing it even though it went at grade (62). I have to think it’ll CAC with the antique toning—I’ll try this year.

shish

From the Charlotte mint.

MWallace

@Soldi said:
The more we get around the hobby; the more you realize ANACS can grade coins.

I agree somewhat. For "normal" coins they're right on as much as the big guys. They just don't carry the clout for some perceived reason. I do have a theory about how they grade error coins though,s which is MUCH different than PCGS and NGC's grading of error coins. I don't want to be critical so I really shouldn't say what my theory is, which may of course be wrong. With that being said, I still use them for some less expensive error coins. They also don't charge the error coin fee for blanks and planchets which is a BIG PLUS for common, inexpensive blanks/planchets.

I do love the soapbox coins. Here's a few more of mine:

BStrauss3

The label and hologram place it after ANA sold ANACS to Amos Press in July 31, 1990 for $1.5m plus royalties. Beyond that ...

DNADave

Soldi

They grade copper best

jedm

I kind like 'em too!

WaterSport

Vetter

Eighteen63

JWP

coastaljerseyguy

spyglassdesign

FrankH

bramn8r

bramn8r

bramn8r

bramn8r

bramn8r

ThreeCentSilverFL

They are cool little slabs

Cladiator

Catbert

https://player.vimeo.com/video/717332347

BStrauss3

@coastaljerseyguy FYI

Cert# 400 is much later in the series than you might think.

The two-letter/four-number slabs were started under ANA ownership and continued for quite a while under Amos Press. While they didn't use all 280,000 possible cert#s, many of them were used.

When they switched to all numbers, the letter/number combos were assigned numerical values and the "missing" numbers were then used.

0nnnn
7nnnn
15nnnn
21nnnn
22nnnn
25nnnn

finally picking up with 28nnnn

So if you say that 400 is the back side of the 1st 250,000 coins ANACS certified, nobody will argue. But it's not the 1st thousand. I have several others from that era...

Finally, the definition of the bar code and conversion table is here (hard to find): https://web.archive.org/web/20181227045213/https://anacs.com/ContentPages/BarCode.aspx

Tonedeaf

OAKSTAR

Wow!! Some stunning examples gents! 👍🏻 Nice to see how many others are in this small ANACS holder club. Had no idea this thread would take off the way it did.

OAKSTAR

@P0CKETCHANGE said:
Here’s one that used to be in an old soapbox—it was the first certified coin I ever bought, when I graduated from throwing random Kennedy halves and SBAs in an old jewelry box.

It’s nice to have the TrueView and have it part of my Registry type set, but I kind of regret crossing it even though it went at grade (62). I have to think it’ll CAC with the antique toning—I’ll try this year.

What was the grade before it left the old soapbox?

gumby1234

@Oakstar thats a small sampling of my soapbars I probably have 60 or 70 remaining after selling a bunch of them last year.

OAKSTAR

@gumby1234 said:
@Oakstar thats a small sampling of my soapbars I probably have 60 or 70 remaining after selling a bunch of them last year.

No doubt, you guys could blowup this thread with these slabs. So is it soapbar or soapbox?..... or both?

Here's another one. I kinda liked the toning on this one.

TennesseeDave

gumby1234

@OAKSTAR its soapbars

logger7

A couple questions:

Who were the graders when they were using those holders? Let me guess a few from their old ads in Coin World, Mike Fahey, Randy Campbell, Tim Hargis.
Also: why did they discontinue that nice minimalist holder?

gumby1234

No idea who any graders were.
No clue why they changed the holders. I do know there are 6 different soapbar style holders with the first and the 3rd one being the toughest to find. Especially the 3rd style..

liefgold

One of the rarest of the gold dollar series.

OAKSTAR

@gumby1234 said:
No idea who any graders were.
No clue why they changed the holders. I do know there are 6 different soapbar style holders with the first and the 3rd one being the toughest to find. Especially the 3rd style..

I'm thinking it's good for all of us that they discontinued these soapbars. 👍🏻 😉

gumby1234

Good financially if you owned them already.

TennesseeDave

mikee999

BStrauss3

@TennesseeDave RE is one of the crossover combos (EX is the other) that were in use by ANA and continued under Amos. That dates your slab to the 2nd half of 1990.