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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2276709, member: 76194&quot;]It is almost game over for slabbed coins. Pretty soon people will realize there are counterfeits out there where you can&#039;t tell the difference between it and the real one at all, because the fake slab will look and feel exactly the same as a real slab, the coin inside will look genuine enough through the slab, and the code on the slab will return a hit to a real coin of the same type and grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly, the coin community brought it on itself. Until two decades ago part of the hobby was the need to study each coin carefully before you bought one, to familiarize yourself thoroughly with what you were buying to make sure you got a genuine one and that the grade quoted to you was the right grade for the coin. Today with the era of slabbed commodities, I doubt many collectors of slabs know how much their coin is supposed to weight, the diameter of the coin, how to tell a casted coin from a genuine struck coin, etc., and slabs pretty much make it impossible to use those methods to authenticate a coin even if you wanted to.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no substitute for properly researching a coin before you buy it, and no substitute for calipers, coin scales, and loops (combined with thorough research) as the only method to ensure you get what you paid for. As you can see, a slab won&#039;t keep you safe from counterfeits anymore, and any thoughts to the contrary is an illusion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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