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MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭✭✭

@USSID17 and I were talking the other day. Which slab is nicknamed "Soap Bar"?

While on the subject, what are other slab nicknames and show a picture of one? I can think of several but I'll start with this one.

Doily.

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,400 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thx for this thread. I hear various nicknames and I am not always sure what some of them mean.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

    First generation PCGS slabs are called rattlers since the coins frequently are loose inside them and rattle.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MWallace said:
    @USSID17 and I were talking the other day. Which slab is nicknamed "Soap Bar"?

    The early NGC slabs also called "no line fatties".

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • MarkKelleyMarkKelley Posts: 1,953 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My instinct tells me that the "soap bar" is the PCGS Regency holder as it reminds me of a bar of Irish Spring. Is this correct?

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I just refer to them all as slabs, often with the TPG initials preceding the word. I have never had an interest in the types/generations, just the coin. Cheers, RickO

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 25, 2021 6:44AM

    Old Green Holder aka OGH AND Green on Green

  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’ve heard ‘Soap Bar’ and ‘Soap Box’ used for the old small white ANACS slabs, and for what we all know as NGC Fatties.

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭✭✭

    MCGS - a/k/a the toilet bowl slab...

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  • ZoidMeisterZoidMeister Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @astrorat said:

    @BStrauss3 said:
    MCGS - a/k/a the toilet bowl slab...

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    That's cool . . . . insanely cool . . . .

    Z

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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • stockdude_stockdude_ Posts: 504 ✭✭✭

    @Connecticoin said:
    "Prehistoric" Slab

    Not a slab ;) But a very nice coin!

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,204 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BStrauss3 said:
    MCGS - a/k/a the toilet bowl slab...

    That was tidy bowls first job I heard and fwiw

  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stockdude_ said:

    @Connecticoin said:
    "Prehistoric" Slab

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    Not a slab ;) But a very nice coin!

    True, but it is clearly a precursor to PCGS, founded by David Hall (hence the term "prehistoric" :D

  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Connecticoin Nice!....not a lot of those around.

  • ZoidMeisterZoidMeister Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I cannot believe nobody has posted links to this site yet . . . . . . . .

    I almost forgot about it myself . . . . .

    Z

    https://www.pcgs.com/holders

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  • thefinnthefinn Posts: 2,657 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Raybob15239 said:
    I have heard the old ANACS holders referred to as soap bars.

    About the size of a single-use bar of soap in a hotel.

    thefinn
  • LazybonesLazybones Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Doris...


    Brenda...


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  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Lazybones Condor101 has said that First Token was not an authorized ACG licensee. So those have to be slabbed by a licensee as a 2nd label. No clue AFAIK as to who actually did them.

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  • LazybonesLazybones Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BStrauss3 said:
    @Lazybones Condor101 has said that First Token was not an authorized ACG licensee. So those have to be slabbed by a licensee as a 2nd label. No clue AFAIK as to who actually did them.

    As I understand it, ACG sued First Token for using their slabs. This is partially why FTGS was gone inside a year.

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  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Lazybones said:
    As I understand it, ACG sued First Token for using their slabs. This is partially why FTGS was gone inside a year.

    I don't see any signs of such a suit in PACER. No cases with FirstToken or First Token, etc. Probably never got past a nasty letter from a lawyer.

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  • LazybonesLazybones Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BStrauss3 said:

    @Lazybones said:
    As I understand it, ACG sued First Token for using their slabs. This is partially why FTGS was gone inside a year.

    I don't see any signs of such a suit in PACER. No cases with FirstToken or First Token, etc. Probably never got past a nasty letter from a lawyer.

    Very likely.

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  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 29, 2021 9:51AM

    Tomb. As in entombed.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    D'OYLY

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • Sandman70gtSandman70gt Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 29, 2021 10:45AM

    @Connecticoin said:
    First Generation Slab:

    1st generation is normally a green rattler.
    The White rattler is the 1st generation in reality. Aka OWR

    Lakes posted this a while back...

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  • USSID17USSID17 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 14, 2021 3:16PM

    Did someone say soap bar?? :D This is why we say soap bar.

  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 12, 2021 4:43PM

    @MWallace said:
    @USSID17 and I were talking the other day. Which slab is nicknamed "Soap Bar"?

    i googled soap bar and ngc. that yielded some interesting results. a rare combination. numismatics and soap. also some women i've encountered recently. since when did it fall out of vogue to enjoy low-cost, clean water in the first world in the form of bathing?

    anywhoo, i tried to find the green insert but all the images were samples, so i went with this. soap bar covers a few generations.

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  • nk1nknk1nk Posts: 477 ✭✭✭✭

    Gigantor?

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