{"id":59,"date":"2007-08-21T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T05:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/gia-vs-ags-certificates\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T07:22:57","slug":"gia-vs-ags-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/gia-vs-ags-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"GIA vs AGS Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When most people compare GIA to AGS certificates, they immediately think about the grading &#8211; that is, the differences in how they grade colour, clarity and cut.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whilst they are two of the most consistent and accurate labs in the world, what some people don&#8217;t know is that the actual physical presentation of the certificates vary greatly, as show below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 366px; height: 252px;\" title=\"GIA vs AGS Certificates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/giavsags.jpg\" alt=\"GIA vs AGS Certificates\" width=\"366\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 416px; height: 222px;\" title=\"GIA vs AGS Certificates Face Down\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/giavsags2.jpg\" alt=\"GIA vs AGS Certificates Face Down\" width=\"416\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">As you can see, the GIA certificate is merely a laminated piece of plastic, whilst the AGS certificate is presented in a vinyl folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When most people compare GIA to AGS certificates, they immediately think about the grading &#8211; that is, the differences in how they grade colour, clarity and cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diamonds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}