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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mark Feld, post: 1299402, member: 11467&quot;]&quot;Market grading&quot; is a way of assigning a grade in order to try to place a value on a coin, as opposed to grading a coin based strictly on its technical merits. For example, some coins are graded a point or even two points higher than they otherwise would be, due to their beautiful color (and superior eye appeal).</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the past few years, a large number of counterfeit coins in counterfeit third party grading company holders have entered the marketplace. </p><p><br /></p><p>Often, the counterfeiters use/copy actual unique coin ID grading label numbers that the grading companies have previously assigned to genuine coins. So, if you were to look up the coin ID number of one of those counterfeits, on the grading company&#039;s website, it would show as being a legitimate ID number for coin such and such.</p><p><br /></p><p>On Ebay, I have seen images of many counterfeit coins in counterfeit PCGS holders, with identical dates, grades and ID numbers to genuine coins sold in Heritage auctions. And it is obvious from the Heritage and EBay images that the coins are different. The Heritage coin is genuine and the EBay coin, counterfeit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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