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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;flaminio, post: 192923, member: 213&quot;]Firstly, when I say &quot;scrub&quot;, I&#039;m using the term colloquially. I have no idea what NCS&#039;s processes are for conserving a coin, and as far as I know, those processes are a trade secret anyway. It is a different process than what is traditionally considered dipping, but I&#039;m sure some chemical agents are nonetheless involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can check out <a href="http://www.ncscoin.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ncscoin.com/" rel="nofollow">their website</a> for more details, but basically if you have a coin that&#039;s ugly in some regard, they can do their best to conserve it back to health, and then if the coin passes muster as a slabbable coin, they can walk it across the hall to NGC for holdering (NCS and NGC are divisions of the same parent company).</p><p><br /></p><p>However, if the coin would still be bodybagged, they can put it in an NCS holder with the problems noted and a details grade assigned, similar to the way ANACS does it these days (except ANACS won&#039;t try to conserve it).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ncscoin.com/gallery/conserved/index.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ncscoin.com/gallery/conserved/index.asp" rel="nofollow">Check out NCS&#039;s before and after gallery for examples of their conservation experience.</a> Do note that this procedure is somewhat controversial, and many feel that the &quot;after&quot; coins are no longer original, and thus on the same level as a traditionally &quot;cleaned&quot; coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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