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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 325927, member: 66&quot;]Actually I&#039;m not sure if they actually say the coins are counterfiet.&nbsp; I believe the buyer/bidder just gets a note stating that the auction has ben pulled bcause it is in violation of their countrfeit coin and stamp policy.&nbsp; They aren&#039;t saying that the coins are countrfeit, but the policy has a poorly worded name that causes people to infer that the coins are counterfeit.&nbsp; The word counterfeit in the title causes a case of &quot;guilt by association&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone held a US patent on coin slabbing it would probably be Accugrade.&nbsp; They were the first US company to start slabbing coins.&nbsp; PCGS was about th fourth or fifth.&nbsp; Several of th services hold patents on various shell designs.&nbsp; OK I check a listing of slab patents that I have and the earliest one was issued to Design Pak Inc of Marboro MA in 1983.&nbsp; These were the NNCS slabs.&nbsp; The next earliest I have is for Accugrade&#039;s small size holder filed in 1987. (ACG was using the larger photoslabs bginning in 1984)</p><p><br /></p><p>For non US patents it would probably go to South African Gold and Silver Exchange.&nbsp; They were producing slabbed coins as early as 1975.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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