AUTHENTICATION AND ENCAPSULATION & DETAILS GRADING FOR PROBLEM COINS
 In
addition to its world-class Professional Conservation
Service, NCS offers two certification options: Authentication
and Encapsulation & Details Grading for Problem
coins.
These two encapsulation services help NCS increase
the scope of its efforts as a conservation service by
providing long-term storage options, that promote the
item’s longer-term stability and serves as a preventative
conservation method.
Under this service, NCS numismatists will authenticate,
attribute varieties, identify mint errors and encapsulate
most coins, tokens and medals. Variety attribution and
error coin identification are included at no additional
charge. NCS will not assign a grade to the item under
this service. Items submitted for this service are encapsulated
as genuine only.
 Coins
that need conservation should be submitted through the
standard NCS conservation service, which provides the
option of having the coins authenticated and encapsulated
after conservation is complete. In any case, NCS will
prescreen coins for potential problems that can be addressed
through conservation. This service can be used for the
authentication and encapsulation of both problem-free
and problem or "no grade" coins. This service
does not include a description of detrimental surface
conditions unless NCS considers it to be a deceptive
alteration, enhancement or repair intended to increase
the value of the item. Examples of problems that would
be designated on the Authentic Only encapsulation include,
but are not limited to, "plugged", "whizzed",
"tooled", "artificial color or toning",
and most repairs at the discretion of NCS numismatists.
Under this service level, coins with irreversible detrimental
surface conditions or damage (commonly known as "problem"
or "no grade" coins) will be authenticated,
given a Details grade and encapsulated by NCS. A "Details
Grade" is not unlike other forms of problem coin
grading where in the details of the coin are assigned
a grade and the detrimental surface condition is described.
However, unlike other services, NCS will not
subjectively assign a "net" grade. Instead,
NCS will authenticate, attribute varieties, and accurately
describe the items details and identify the surface
problem (i.e. AU Details, Scratched).
Coins can be submitted for this service through conservation
or directly for certification. Coins that need or will
benefit from conservation due to residues, tarnish or
other surface contaminants should be submitted through
the standard conservation service.
Any item submitted for NCS details grading that is
suitable for non-problem coin grading will be transferred
to NCS's official grading service for non-problem coin
grading on behalf of the submitter. In such cases, the
NCS grading fee will be waived for the transferred coin
and a $3 transfer fee will be charged. Grading fees
for transferred non-problem coin will be charged by
the NCS approved grading service.
NCS will also credit $2 toward the NCS grading fee
for each coin submitted with its original "no grade"
or problem coin label from any grading service.
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