Encapsulated Coins
From Susan Headley, former About.com Guide
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Selected term: Encapsulated Coin
Explanation: One that has been sealed in a plastic holder to avoid damage to the coin
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Encapsulated coin - One which has been sealed in a plastic holder, especially by a third-party grading service such as PCGS or NGC.
Encapsulated coin - A coin that has been independently certified and encapsulated in a sonically sealed holder. The holder has a bar-coded identification insert that notes the coin, variety, date and grade.
encapsulated coin: One that has been sonically sealed in a plastic holder, especially by a third-party grading service.
Encapsulated Coins
These are coins that have been authenticated, graded and preserved in plastic by an independent service.
Engraver
This is the person who cuts the image of a design onto a die.
Encapsulated Coins - Coins that have been authenticated, graded and sealed in a plastic holder by a professional service.
Engraver - The person who cuts the design into a coinage die.
The encapsulated coins are placed vertically inside boxes made of very sturdy cardboard, and these boxes contain a row of dividers so that the holders don't come into contact with one another.
They authenticated, graded and encapsulated coins in a protective hard plastic shell.
In it should be some bottled water (or you can buy it there), a magnifying glass for looking at coins, cotton gloves to handle non-encapsulated coins, a notebook and pen, a bunch of return address labels (at least 100), ...
Slab - a slang term used to refer to an encapsulated coin from one of the encapsulation services. A holder contains information that identifies a particular coin. It protects a coin from all but the harshest of treatment.
Stack's, in the mid-1990's seemed to sell far fewer encapsulated coins than their competitors and my initial reaction on viewing the coins in their holders was that NGC had gotten a little bit carried away in grading them.
The most recent grade on an encapsulated coin that had been cracked out and submitted to a grading service more than once.
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 See also: Coin, Encapsulated, Numismatic, Mint, Grade
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