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.

Authentication and Encapsulation

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.

Details Grading and Encapsulation

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.