New PCGS holders to combat counterfeits.

http://www.pcgs.com/News/pcgs-and-dupont-authentication-combat-counterfeiting

Looks interesting, should make it a lot harder to counterfeit a slab now.

 

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If wonder if the counterfeiters did PCGS a favor. At five bucks apiece, I'm guessing there are going to be millions of resubmissions to get into the hologram holder.

 

The hologram could have been less cartoonish, just sayin'.

 

Looks like that might happen, good eye.

 

IMO, PCGS always had the least imaginative holder and this one doesn't change my opinion. I'm glad they are doing something to combat the growing number of fake PCGS slabs being sold on ebay.

 

awesome

 

I wonder how many they get back to re-certify...only to find out they are not real?

 

NGC all the way baby. I will take a run-of-the-mill no frills NGC-Edge-View holder any day over any other TPG slab. I am only slightly tainted by my personal relationship with NGC personnel, but if only for the actual look of the slab, I still love the simplistic design of NGC anytime

 

I see they're actually making a new scratch free slab as well, interested in how opaque they will be now.

 

I assume they will pay a bunch of interns to just reholder them. fake or real.

 

they could at least post a list of duplicate cert numbers they get.. that way you would at least know what to look for and where.

 

Sticker looks cool but the holder still looks like garbage.
PCGS slabs are absolutely hideous.

And how does adding a different sticker combat counterfeiting?
Counterfeiters can just keep making the older slabs with the older stickers...

 

it doesnt. its a money grab.

 

Not to rain on any parades but this will have absolutely NO effect on counterfeit slabs or the production of counterfeit slabs. The ONLY possible way it "Might" would be if PCGS agreed to "reholder" every PCGS Slabbed coin at a reduced cost or for free. I see that its $5.00 per slap plus $8.00 handling fee plus return shipping costs. They'll make millions and then some enterprising soul will come up with aimilar hologram.

PCGS has graded more than what, 20 million coins and it will be those "old" slabs that folks will continue to counterfeit as the threat is still alive and well as long as those older slabs still exist.

Of course, PCGS, from a business standpoint, may want folks to only purchase coins in this new slab in which case it will force folk to resubmit for reholdering coins which simply cannot be sold in which case, PCGS makes a windfall!

No, I hold absolutely zero importance of a new "hologram" and while it may be important to some, it certainly will NOT combat counterfeiting of older PCGS slabs.

 

I wonder what's next after this

 

Maybe some kind of biometric feature where the submitter would somehow include retina or fingerprint information that would get added to the slab!!!

 

I have one in my hands. It's a great looking slab.