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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kurisu, post: 5511134, member: 117063&quot;][USER=78244]@TypeCoin971793[/USER] </p><p>I&#039;ll mention something that I believe has been completely missed...</p><p>This is for NGC slabs...</p><p><b>If there is an original NGC image available for your slab, carefully compare the edges of the slab to their photo.</b></p><p><b>You&#039;ll notice especially from the front that there is a strange pattern or just a touch here and there of what looks like fogged stressed plastic or even a dried rubber glue look in spots. The patterns from this are random and very distinct.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>As an example, if you look carefully at the obverse of the Slab posted above, &quot;1794 Head of 94...&quot; You can see a bit of this above the scale image on the label towards the center of the edge of the slab. I also see a touch of it on the left edge almost straight across from the top of the coin.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Maybe someone knows if this is part of a deliberate anti-tampering feature around the edges of NGC slabs?</i> Maybe it&#039;s just natural variations from the sonic sealing process...But it makes it very easy to compare your actual slab to NGC&#039;s original image. I&#039;d like to hear more if someone knows something about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because if you think about trying to somehow cleanly break open an NGC slab there would be no way to have the original sealed slab image match the re-closed and/or re-glued slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this out fairly recently and it caused me to start looking through even a bunch of my older and more recent slabs which I know to be authentic. Even silver proofs and autographed slabs. Because I suddenly thought I had bought a tampered slab. But I have noticed this whiter stressed plastic look seems to be somewhere on every slab and it&#039;s sometimes very small and sometimes one edge has quite a bit of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started to calm down a bit when I realized on one of my more expensive coins that the stressed plastic look is only on one edge...in theory it would be impossible to break open only one edge and then remove and replace the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve gone my whole adult life without noticing these random areas on the NGC slabs. Believe it or not...the all too real brain-fog and other issues I&#039;ve been experiencing from my recent bout with Covid19 led me to this somewhat panicked moment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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