CGS "Encapsulation"?

Pokermandude

Is this the equivalent to a body bag and/or details grade? I'm not too familiar with CGS. Coin in the link looks like it may have been cleaned.

Ebay link

RobP

They will put them in slabs for you without grading if you want. Basically just for storage. I'm sure someone on ebay will try to make something of the fact it is in a slab and pass it off for what it isn't.

Andres

beats me, I agree coin looks polished , and CGS says these coins are send back to the owner , without encapsulation.
perhaps they did tomb these coins in the past, but without grade ?

CGS policy

Pokermandude

<< <i>beats me, I agree coin looks polished , and CGS says these coins are send back to the owner , without encapsulation.
perhaps they did tomb these coins in the past, but without grade ?

CGS policy >>



From that link:

"Are all coins submitted grade-able?
Every coin we received is assessed if a coin is a forgery, repaired, tooled, artificially enhanced, or damaged it will not get into a CGS -UK capsule and returned assessed but not encapsulated."

Interesting. They didn't specifically add cleaned or polished in that list, but for one I'd call those actions "damage".

RobP

What I mean is they will hermetically seal them for you for about £5 or 10 without doing any grade assignment? I was thinking of doing this with a Huth pattern double florin struck in iron to stop it going rusty over time.

MacCrimmon

Interesting; I agree with Andres that the coin does appear to have been burnished at some time.

Pokermandude

That page of theirs made it seem like ANY coins they deem damaged/altered/tooled won't be encapsulated. Not sure if they are defining encapsulation as slabbed+graded or just slabbed. I read it as slabbed at all, but that coin definitely doesn't look original so maybe they will encapsulate anything for a fee.