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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7307618, member: 66&quot;]And they would have to be some pretty rare coins.&nbsp; Even most &quot;rare&quot; coins exist by the hundreds if not thousands.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes it CAN be done, but are you going to haul that equipment around with you when you go to a coin show so you can scan any raw coin you are considering buying so it can check against a database?&nbsp; These fingerprint images are done under very controlled conditions, not something you can just duplicate with a picture snapped on your cellphone.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But who DOES do such fingerprinting?&nbsp; The TPG&#039;s&nbsp; Or at least PCGS.&nbsp; They were able to do it with their Expert system back in 1990 and the do it today with the Secure Shield system.&nbsp; And those systems could recognize a coin that had been cracked out and sent back in.&nbsp; But in order to get it to work the coin would have to have been scanned once already and then sent in again.&nbsp; Not something that will help buying raw coins at a show.&nbsp; Although if it has been reported as stolen it could get it flagged when someone sends it in again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course I&#039;m, not sure the TPG&#039;s would want to get themselves involved in stolen coin reports where they have simply been sent a raw coin for slabbing.&nbsp; Do they seize it?&nbsp; Return it unslabbed with a notation it has been repotted stolen?&nbsp; I could see this being a can of worms for them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They WILL take a report.&nbsp; No they won&#039;t itemize what was stolen, but a submitted list WITH a police report could get them listed in the database.&nbsp; Yes it isn&#039;t perfect but it would help to weed out fictitious reports.&nbsp; It would have to be better than letting people list coins as stolen with no evidence whatsoever that a theft has occurred.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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