Send To NCS Or Leave It Alone?

that is correct, you can also check a box that says do not conserve unless they are positive it will stay the same grade also, they also will make an assessment and then call you and let you know if it will be in the best interest of the coin to do the conservation or not . With a darkly toned coin like mine it would be very hard to conserve it and it would never be Blast White again but still may be able to remove certain problems and lighten up the toning a bit to make it more eye appealing

If you're submitting a raw coin to NCS, put it into a mylar flip (I use Safe-T-Flips™ ), then into a protected piece of cardboard (I use Safe-T-Mailers™ , a self-sticking cardboard cover), then into a padded envelope with the paperwork. I presume NCS gives packaging instructions for submissions somewhere on its site or on the forms.

Again, Bryan will know more on this. I'm not certain of the process of converting an NCS slabbed coin to NGC, but I think it's part of the NCS submission process wherein if it's eligible for NGC grading, it goes from NCS directly to NGC. If you happen to get your hands on an NCS-slabbed coin and it's not marked "cleaned", "damaged", or otherwise is eligible for NGC grading, do not remove it from the NCS slab. Otherwise, NGC will treat it as any other raw coin. Since NGC and NCS are part of the same company, it's best if NGC knows that a coin has gone through the NCS process.

Ok, that makes sense. I'm going to read through all my NGC stuff so I can get ready.

I think I'll send in my gold bullion buffaloes (still in the mint wrapping), along with two St Gauden raw coins. I am torn on whether to send in my 20th anniversary gold set, since it is opened, and I just don't know if I should keep them in the box or have them graded. Same with my 20th anniversary two piece set.

Here is the deal in my estimation:

The coin is in a 64 Slab, however I am rather befuddled in that it made this grade without the eye appeal that is necessary. Even a 63 should have "attractive mint luster" according to ANACS.

Now if this were my coin here is what I would do. Break it out. Dilute my dip to 30% dipping solution to 70
% distilled water.

I would use gloves and rim hold the coin in the dip for only 2 or 3 seconds and then rinse it in a separate bowl of distilled water IMMEDIATELY and pat it dry (GENTLY) and take another look.

This Morgan has a lot of potential and if it reached this grade in this condition, I would try a little "help" and re-submit it. Be very careful in the dipping process. When it begins to please your eye stop! The temptation is to keep on dipping hoping it will look better after it reaches a pleasant eye appeal, but anything above this only damages the coin. Remember, when dipping less is more!

welp if I dont hear anything by tomorrow I will be calling them up to find out what the hold up is with these coins, I have an appointment in the morning with my doctor and my pain specialist and probably will not be home till around 1:00 or so and if I have not had any correspondance from them by then I will be giving them a call to find out whats going on

Don't worry about me, Bryan. My last submission took longer than this just to grade, and I have complete trust in you. Heck, you're buying nicer stuff than I sent you.

Well SuperDave our coins are in Quality Control which means they should be done with them sometime this week

NCS doesn't have tiers like NGC, and quality control is NGC, that means the coins have already been conserved and probably graded, they are in quality control at NGC now waiting for final inspection/packaging/shipping. There is no way to track the coins at NCS online you have to wait until they are sent to NGC to track them, the funny thing is they were never updated at all at NGC until they hit quality control so they have probably been there about 7 working days since we only had 3 coins and that probably put us in the higher tier