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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3568788, member: 66"]That is a fake slab, with a fake label and most likely a fake coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>As johnmilton said PCGS has never seen that thing in hand. The counterfeiter made the fake coin and then went to someplace like say Heritage auction archive and searched for double eagles with that date and mintmark. Probably dozens or even hundreds of examples came up. Copy the serial number off the genuine slab and put that number on the fake label you print up. You now have what looks like a PCGS slabbed coin with a serial number that will verify on the PCGS database. And since the database has relatively few images a potential buyer can't see on the database that the coin in the real slab does not match the coin in the fake slab. This is one of the reasons there are a lot more fake PCGS slabs than NGC slabs. NGC has put the images of every coin they have graded in the past 12+ years on their database. So you can not only make sure the serial number matches, you can make sure the coin matches as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3568788, member: 66"]That is a fake slab, with a fake label and most likely a fake coin. As johnmilton said PCGS has never seen that thing in hand. The counterfeiter made the fake coin and then went to someplace like say Heritage auction archive and searched for double eagles with that date and mintmark. Probably dozens or even hundreds of examples came up. Copy the serial number off the genuine slab and put that number on the fake label you print up. You now have what looks like a PCGS slabbed coin with a serial number that will verify on the PCGS database. And since the database has relatively few images a potential buyer can't see on the database that the coin in the real slab does not match the coin in the fake slab. This is one of the reasons there are a lot more fake PCGS slabs than NGC slabs. NGC has put the images of every coin they have graded in the past 12+ years on their database. So you can not only make sure the serial number matches, you can make sure the coin matches as well.[/QUOTE]
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