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Message:: [QUOTE="HandsomeToad, post: 558315, member: 12965"]I wanted to get a Henning Nickel authenticated and slabbed but none of the major TPG's will do it.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  It's an interesting counterfeit, in that it has historical significance and if I sent it in to have it authenticated as a Henning Nickel, I would not want COPY stamped on it but it is a special situation, since I want it slabbed as a specific counterfeit so the slab would designate it as a counterfeit and a stamp would not be necessary and since it would be worth a lot more in the slab than broken out, there would be a loss in value by cracking it out to use for 5 cents in commerce, so by slabbing the counterfeit it makes it more valuable than face value and there would be no way it would make it back into circulation.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Also, for those of you that caught me saying I would not want my Henning Nickel stamped COPY, don't even go there!  :goof:  In the scenario above, I clearly sent the nickel in to have it authenticated as a counterfeit and not authenticated as authentic, so no fraud was involved, like what is occurring with all the Chinese counterfeits that are flooding the marketplace these days.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  So don't be mixing apples and oranges, unless you like fruit punch.  :goofer: I wish the TPG's would look at authenticating historical counterfeits.  :thumb: Ribbit  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]

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