Environmental Damaged Coin (?)

NCS will slab coins with "problems". NGC is their sister company for slabbing non-problem coins. I've never heard of NGCS but it's likely one or the other.

Environmental damage can be almost anything from corrosion to pitting to getting run over by a train.

Artificial color means any non-natural coloring or toning in the coin.

Best of Luck next time.

environmental damage?
Don't you just love it when someone or an organization makes a statement that you have no idea of what they are saying. Naturally everone just loves to spend hours looking up words and phrases and still not know what's going on. Sort of like calling AOL's help desk in India.

Betty, Environmental damage is just that. Damage to the surface of the coin from it's surroundings, whether it is storage conditions, the chemicals or water vapor in the air, fatty acids on your skin, handling, etc.

I am sorry to say that if you google NGCS, it is NOT affiliated with NGC or NCS, It is considered a low tier Grading company.IMO, I would even doubt the double die aspect if they did it.

Artificial coloring of coins is done on many modern coins in the hopes that buyers will not notice certain defects such as the "Off-color" you see from chemicals being used to remove green/bluish non-pvc copper compound "gunk" from cents. You can also artificially tone silver coins. This type of treatment is often detected by looking for microscopic dots of brighter silver within the toned areas where small dust or particles that blocked the chemical from the metal. Graders have seen large enough numbers of specific coins to recognize a toning effect such as crayon like colors that don't occur naturally. I don't mean rainbow like colors.

I have had "artificial coloring" on a couple of Morgans, that once I put it under the microscope, I agreed with them. When I checked my records I had bought them both from the same person. Hmm.

Jim