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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 4151523, member: 27832&quot;]Okay, QR Code Reader <i>can</i> read barcodes as well, although not as readily as QR codes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I scanned the right-hand image from this pair in the OP:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/388d54f6-4372-4d78-8ce1-7ebb21bec8e7-jpeg.1071162/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The code I got was <b><font face="Courier New">0000072140058028396355</font></b>. I interpret this as:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="Courier New"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000">00000</span>7214</span>00<span style="color: #00b300">58</span>0<span style="color: #0000ff">28396355</span></font></b></p><p><font face="Arial"><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Series number (coin type/date identifier)</span></b></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #00b300"><b>Numeric grade</b></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>Serial number</b></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>The code I got from the left-hand image was <b><font face="Courier New">0000072260045025333029</font></b>, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. That code is for an 1893-S in XF45.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s one quick way to fail <i>this</i> fake slab. But it will be trivially easy for the fakers to generate barcodes that match the label, so I wouldn&#039;t rely on this for long.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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