Hi all, Welcome to my 13,000th Post Thank you for all the great members, newbies, moderators and even trolls who make the time spent on CoinTalk a great one!
Today I have this Chile 1932 Un Peso. It was submitted to NGC together with some other coins I have shown recently. It was not attributed but given the following attribution - RESIDUE My question is.. What the heck is NCS Conservation? Does my coin have hope? (Yes I know... Call them!)
My title states Revisited because I have posted this Chile coin before - https://www.cointalk.com/threads/chile-1932-un-peso-silver.297518/
Congratulations on your milestone paddy. I. for one, truly enjoy your posts, photos and all you do to help here. NCS is Numismatic Conservation Services, establish in 2001. NGC uses this acronym but there is a NCS also registered in Great Britain, a bit confusing as both seem to do the same thing, conserve coins. Edit-So it appears NGC is offering to get that residue off for you as long as you are willing to pay the extra fees.
If you have some epsom salt, acetylene, and a snorkle you can do the same job for free! J/K Seriously though, start with distilled water and then pure acetone.
NCS does good work on things like residue. Nowadays I'm likely to try a little acetone myself but I've had them recommend services and remove ill defined gunk with good result. You never know what might be under it on some things, but if it's a surface contaminant bad enough to preclude grading, it might be worth it. I did have them offer to 'conserve' a nice toner of a coin that would only become a bright white widget (of which I already had one in a higher grade). It was graded a 65 along with an (?email) offer to send it to NCS. In all liklihood it could have been a 66 I suppose. But it was attractive (to me) 'character' toning and I already have a top pop 68. So why ruin it? That said, if your peso was mine I'd try the acetone, and if that didn't fix the problem, then I'd do NCS.
