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<p>[QUOTE="Marshall, post: 4159131, member: 21705"]That doesn't tell anything about what percentage of them are fakes. Many of fakes have been certified before discovering that they are fakes. They then make note for their staff to be on the look out for them, but 1% or 2% of that 40 million could be fake, or not. That is a significant point. TPGs work on volume and detecting fakes takes TIME.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be interested in what a random sample of say 2,000 coins would reveal if studied by those knowledgeable in detecting both counterfeit coins and counterfeit slabs. But that hasn't been done yet to my knowledge. Until then, all we have to work with is anecdotal evidence and what those with detective skills are seeing. But if only 1 in 50 have been detected it could amount to a huge volume of such harmful sales.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marshall, post: 4159131, member: 21705"]That doesn't tell anything about what percentage of them are fakes. Many of fakes have been certified before discovering that they are fakes. They then make note for their staff to be on the look out for them, but 1% or 2% of that 40 million could be fake, or not. That is a significant point. TPGs work on volume and detecting fakes takes TIME. I would be interested in what a random sample of say 2,000 coins would reveal if studied by those knowledgeable in detecting both counterfeit coins and counterfeit slabs. But that hasn't been done yet to my knowledge. Until then, all we have to work with is anecdotal evidence and what those with detective skills are seeing. But if only 1 in 50 have been detected it could amount to a huge volume of such harmful sales.[/QUOTE]
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