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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3720815, member: 101855&quot;]You should qualify this post with the phrase, &quot;leading slab companies.&quot; There have been some fly by night outfits that were FAR LESS reliable than an honest, knowledgeable dealer. Some these crooked slab companies were created when eBay let consigners use any slab to claim that a piece had been “certified.”</p><p><br /></p><p>So far has noting fake PCGS and NGC slabs, maybe you can do it, but there are a lot of collectors who can’t. Sometimes the detection boils down to the wrong print font on the label, which can be very subtle. Incorrect bar codes are another clue. It’s not something a lot of people are going to notice unless they have looked at a lot of slabs and even a lot of generations of slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s why PCGS and NGC ask you to check out serial numbers on the slab before you buy the piece. The weakness to doing this is that the crooks often use the serial number to a legitimate slab for the same denomination, date and mint mark. Unless the slab company has a picture pop up when you check the serial number, there is still room for fraud. The fakes have both a counterfeit slab and a counterfeit coin in them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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