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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2046450, member: 66&quot;]Usually they prefer to use the Heritage auction archives, much easier to find a matching coin.&nbsp; If you have a fake coin it can be rather time consuming to find one on the PCGS certificate verification site, but you can go to Heritage, search for the coin and it pops up a bunch of slabbed examples for the crook to choose from for his fake slab label.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately it also makes it easier for us to spot fake labels because we can search for the number on Heritage as well and see if the photo of the coin there matches the coin in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have to admit I was under the impression that PCGS had started adding photos of all the coins the slabbed about 3 years after NGC stared doing it but after a review of the literature it turns out I was wrong.&nbsp; They did start adding pictures of all Secure Plus coins I think, and back in 2011 they added links to all examples of times when the coin had been auctioned so you can look at those pictures, plus any pictures of the coin that existed from it&#039;s appearance in Registry sets. I would agree though that images of ALL coins they slab would be even better.&nbsp; (Even if they start now they will be about seven years behind NGC&#039;s efforts.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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