ICCS

Cladiator

I've been looking at late 19th Century and early 20th Century Canadian silver coins slabbed by ICCS. I've noticed that a great majority of the coins in Mint State are blast white. Naturally I'd expect more of these coins to have some type of toning to them being so old. My question is does ICCS have a propencity to slab dipped and/or cleaned coins without stating that they were dipped and/or cleaned in the comments section of their insert?

Perhaps I'm overreacting a bit here. Realize I'm coming from my normal collecting frame of mind with 200+ year old US silver and if that stuff is blast white you almost always have problems.

ajaan

ICCS and all the US TPG will slab dipped coins. To them, it is not cleaning. ICCS will not certify a cleaned coin without noting it on the insert unless the coin is very slightly, market acceptable, cleaned.

Numismatics

<< <i>ICCS and all the US TPG will slab dipped coins. To them, it is not cleaning. ICCS will not certify a cleaned coin without noting it on the insert unless the coin is very slightly, market acceptable, cleaned. >>



I agree.