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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 167060, member: 2100&quot;]Tpgs put all kinds of special things on labels, but most collectors believe wholeheartedly that the &quot;top&quot; tpg slabs contain 100% authentic items. Heck, most folks believe you avoid all cleaned coins by buying slabs, and the tpgs don&#039;t even make such a claim. I can picture some shady ebay seller who only shows the front of the slab as some do, and have a no return policy on slabbed items as some do, and putting one of those up hoping bidders will believe it is a slabbed original Lovett piece. There was plenty of space on the label to make some kind of notation that it was not an original. </p><p><br /></p><p>From what you said about the $100 Gold Union, and assuming that the slabbed items were some form of reproduction (since &quot;real&quot; ones were never struck), it seems as if it should have been labeled as a fantasy piece, not as a private issue. At least that is what I believe most collectors would call a reproduction of something that never existed. There is a world of difference between the two. But then, I don&#039;t expect much from a company that has been using the (Civil War token) Fuld id numbering system for several years now and still has not figured out the significance of upper and lower case letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess they would have no problem issueing a blanket authenticity guarantee anyway, since there are no provisions, terms, or parameters as to how they would handle such a problem/claim. It&#039;s just simply &quot;guaranteed&quot;. I guess that is supposed to make people feel better.</p><p>(shakes head)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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