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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 844622, member: 5629&quot;]The above was my first and only impression of the laser tagging.&nbsp; I personally do not believe that PCGS sees the tagging as a deterrent to resubmissions. Rather, I believe they may see this laser tagging as quite the money maker.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing that very many in the numismatic community seem to overlook or forget is the fact that PCGS is a publicly traded corporation.&nbsp; As such, their only (and legal) responsibility is to the interests of their stock holders.&nbsp; A publicly traded corporation must hold the stock holders&#039; interests first.&nbsp; And profits are amongst those interests. As a corporate institute, PCGS could care less about the collector community.&nbsp; If the numismatic community benefits from their endeavor to generate profits for its stock holders, then all the better.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, imagine the profits that could be made if you can receive a coin re-submission. Scan it through a laser scanning unit, have the coin&#039;s footprint validated through their database, and return the coin to the submitter in a new slab with the grade assigned in the database.&nbsp; No grader needed, just a quality control agent to compare the original grading session&#039;s photograph to the coin in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, as a quick note, for those that seem to not fully comprehend the technology we have today, for the price of a brand new SUV, you can purchase five <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html" rel="nofollow">Tesla Personal Supercomputers</a>, each of which is more than powerful enough to accomplish the footprint comparison in a large database.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion, this laser tagging has little to nothing to do with security, or finding stolen coins, or any of the such.&nbsp; Being the &quot;good&quot; corporate entity they are, PCGS is enabling yet another &quot;service&quot; implementation ensuring higher profits for its stock holders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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