ANACS to PCGS - Our Biggest Crossover Yet 

Love the math at the end of the video. I see why you are a coin shop owner and not a math professor. Great watch!

I wouldn't even bother trying to cross an anacs graded coin, to me anacs is just as good as pcgs or ngc if not better. Anacs has strongly become the working man's coin grading company and is just as good as pcgs or ngc at half the price.

Don't break the soapbox!!

Awesome crossover! I think the small white ANACS holders are called "soap bar" holders because they look like a small bar of hotel soap. 😊

There are several dealers on RU-vid who's videos I enjoy. Ben you by far are the best. I also get a kick out of Daniel from coinhelpu. He is a character just like yourself. You guys do a great job of educating us collectors.

I’m liking my 60 soapbox holders more and more.

For the amount of money and time PCGS takes, they should at least give us more details on why they come to some of their decisions (e.g. "did not cross over").

Those ANA blue labels are getting hotter in the last couple of years. I don't think I'd cross those over unless I was going to send them in their soon-to-be PCGS holders to CAC as well.

I appreciate the customer doing this for the channel first off. Secondly that was a really high cross rate which is impressive. Not all Anacs coins will cross at this rate so clearly he was being selective

I love cross over, crack out and open box videos. I watched the entire video. Love it.

Your videos are so great… the way you go through every coin and analyze the grade and the various detail is so helpful for us newer collectors… thank you for sharing!😁👍

What a collection!

Great video! A "soapbox" ANAC slab is very similar in size to small bars of soap one finds in hotel and motel bathrooms. Be well! Ed

Dang it Ben! I need that 1926-D Lincoln. It’s the last UNC Lincoln I need for my complete UNC wheat set in PCGS holders.

thanks for sharing! I've cleaned those enclosure scuffs with toothpaste and a microfiber cloth.

Pcgs and Ngc never put full steps on proof coins. it should have full steps due to the proof strike.

Interesting, the 1924 Merc at 16:13 has a bit of rotation obv vs rev

The math at the end did it for me. If we could all be so lucky at a submission like this!

I dont know that much about coins, but I know that all of those coins are beautiful!

This may be one of the most successful crossover subs I’ve ever seen, especially given how tight PCGS these days (its crossover rate is hovering around 30%)

love those peace dollar upgrades...wow

Wow, those were some beautiful toned coins. Stunning really. Loved your math at the end. lol

One might say that last one had some bird poop at the bottom 😂

This is a great report! Really enjoy and handle soapbox holders whenever possible. Can honestly say they sell very quickly when they come in and have had good results when selectively crossing over. Really enjoyed seeing the peripheral toning on the soapbox holders, believe some of that is due to the holders. Have also seen, what I believe to be, is some toning in the older, first gen ICG holders as well. Bought a group that had old Teletrade stickers and the Buffalo and Jefferson nickels REALLY had some cool toning and color on them. Curious if anyone else has seen this?

Beautiful coins!! Thanks for sharing Ben!!

On the 1925 SLQ, maybe the grader thought the coin had wear on it. It has some strike weakness, so there is some flatness on the shield and breast. It looks BU to me but I've never seen the coin in hand. Look closely and see if the coin is a super-slider.

Happy to see so many ANACS crossing

Dude the "soapbox" reference is based on the traveling plastic bar of soap container that's two pieces (male and female) that slide in one another type thingy 😉

I think "Hotel/Motel bath soap" is more descriptive than "Soapbox". That's kinda what it really looks like.

Very cool video. The 1930 dime was beautiful.

This video, and the one I watched the other day about CAC, all conspire to tell me two things. One is that we need more clarity as to what makes a coin a 65 vs. a 63, as just a random example. Two is we need more TRANSPARENCY, so when you try to crossover and it doesn't, they (all of 'em, not just PCGS) need to tell us why. Third, and perhaps most importantly, is that the entire industry need to readdress what grading standards even are, how they apply, and why. I am well aware that grading is subjective and as much art as it is science, but when the Big Three look at the same coin, and come up with 3 divergent values, somebody, or possibly two somebodies are wrong. A coin can't be a 67 in one place, 69 in another, and a 58 in yet another, once again just picking random numbers. People say "Buy the coin, not the holder", but in some cases, that little number on a slab will make the difference between a $50 coin and a $1,000 one, with just one or two "points", that most buyers couldn't even see if it weren't slabbed. It's almost like gambling if you think about it, especially now that two companies are competing for "Hardest Grader", like there's a prize. And I suppose there is, because over time, just as ANACS

19:10 You know you're a Coin Geek if SLQ is part of your vocabulary.

Your customer has a great eye. Must have been alot of visits to coin shows to get those ANACS coins that grade up or straight cross. New sub !

I love the soap box holders

Hey Ben, ' Great ' video best in a long time.

You have the key to share very unique metallic copper patterns.

that was a generous grade on the 1934 peace with the rim marks!

Love the Coin Geek math at the very end 😂

Great show.

Love the math at the end😂 great video

The only way I can see ANACS as worth the money is if you have coins that would only be worth grading at a certain grade. Like, if I had a bunch of coins that could be a BU 58 or an MS 61, and i csnt quite tell, but the value difference is pretty big. It might make sense to send off to ANACS and if you can get a 60 or 61, that either at least makes it to where you can call it MS and ask for the much bigger value, or only send off the 61's to NGC, so instead of sending 100 possibles to NGC you sent 100 possibles to ANACS, and you send the 10 61s to NGC. That could save you 50% on the 90 that came back as not worth, and you wind up having to pay for 10 of them twice, so you saved 50% on 90% and paid an extra 50% on 10% of them. That maths pretty well. For example if you sent 100 coins off to ANACS at $15 per coin, and you get back 10 that would be really valuable at the MS60 level, you send off those 10 to NGC at $30 a pop, and you saved $1200 compared to just sending all 100 to NGC to start. That's how I would use ANACS if I thought they were just as accurate as NGC, but not as resealable

Great show Ben 👍

as with raw coins, ANACS and ICG purchases can be risky especially when you try to cross them. soap dish holders not soapbox ben.

Hi, Ben. Of all the coins, I like the Walker that you like. The toning is spectacular. Have a great weekend, Everyone!

Great video Ben...

Appeared to balance out between the under graded and over graded. Nice new holders though.I have been using newer ANACS for years.

Not possible, I can't believe it. I get 1 in 10 Anacs coins to cross, when I am lucky. Maybe they finally have found their eye glasses over there at PCGS? Very Nice!

Very nice

Ever seen a bar of hotel soap? Hence the name ‘Soap Bar’ holder.

I need that 1912 S raw to finish one of my two Lincoln sets 5:42

What I learned from this video is the skepticism and sometimes downright disrespect ANACS gets on their grading is totally unwarranted.

so could I send in a slabbed ngc into pcgs to cross over and they'd not change it should it fail os my 65+ 1921 peace I'd not want to take the risk of cracking it to cross over to pcgs but I feel it could go 66.

What is did not cross ?

5:45 I have always been a fan of ERICA.

Why cross those early ANACS? Great grades in great early holders.

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One of the reasons I use NGC…

Here's a fun thought: how many graded coins would it take someone to look though in order to learn how to reliability grade coins, with no outside training, help or resources? Pretend that the person knows nothing about coins before starting.

MS coin in old ANACS holder still have good selling price.

I’m starting to wonder is PCGS worth it? .. looks to be an aloof co. to deal with

Man, a few losses in the beginning, but overall it seems that he selected these coins extremely well!

It’s not for old people as if it was no one old enough to remember them would be around anymore I’m an Aussie and we grow up talking slang and using these old sayings a soap box was a way soap was packed 100 years ago I guess and so you took a soap box to stand on to speak in public so you stood high enough to be heard so the saying get off your soap box then you get the soap box derby young kids made them into what Aussies call Billy carts I think that’s a small cart carried behind a Billy goat and the reason they call these plastic holders soap boxes and I’m old enough to remember my Pop with these but then I saw my mum was going to travel and had one it’s just a plastic box you keep soap in.

22nd! Nice🎉

What does it mean when a coin does not cross asking for a friend

Some sucker pay big money for those toners!!

Found ANACS to be excellent in grading . Prefer ANACS .

1000%!!! 😂

To answer your question, MS 60 is usually a designation for gold coins that are rare and just above AU 58 unless an anacs grader is puffing a questionable pipe

1943 is a 5 all day long!

Hotel soap box

Is dipping a coin in E-Z-Est considered cleaning?

How much did they charge you for the coins that did not cross or was of questionable color to them? That first nickel was one of the BEST STRUCK modern nickels I have seen...perhaps the lack of blazing luster passed them off?

Why didnt you just crack out? Or did you just want crossovers?

There are actually 3 sides to every coin.

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Ben, soap box, from a hotel, they ate not full size bur miniature.

*FIRST!*

Thank you. You made a comment that (I'd never heard before; nor have I experienced)..."you gotta have something that's really kind of detrimental to the eye to stop a coin from being a 3". Wow! I have submitted many - both to PCGS and NGC that I was sure would be (minimum a 4) and came back a 2. These were coins that are beautiful w/ I blv PL also...and just a simple 62. There was nothing detrimental to the eye; to the contrary...I was hoping for a Star for some to NGC, and a PL and a shot at 65. None of the above. It was all very disheartening. All-the-more when I studied dozens of pages of 62's slabbed for sale on the internet: many others that were 63's and some 64's, that couldn't hold a candle to the ones I'm referring to. Even so...I'm appreciative of your videos, as I learn more here. Thank you for putting these together. (I'm hoping and expecting, that someday soon, a NONPROFIT ENTITY/COIN MINI-INDUSTRY will emerge...and utterly replace the "experts" that are 'FOR PROFIT".)

Slq was 63 all day

600th like lol I'm happy when I get 20 likes ha!

Uhm,....its a "motel" soap box.