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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ctrl, post: 364651, member: 13378&quot;]Definitely the best solution. The problem is that purchasing at a distance, whether from a magazine, or any online venue is one of authentication without in-person inspection. TPGs are supposed to be the solution, the oil in the online-coin-puchasing engine if you will, to facilitate trust in the item. If counterfeits of both coin and slab are such that you cannot visually verify the authenticity and you cannot trust the slab, then what happens to this type of market?</p><p><br /></p><p>Could it be conceivable that counterfeits of both coin and slab will eventually reach levels that make it difficult to ascertain the authenticity of a coin (possibly even in-person!) without the more physical checks similar to what would be done at the TPG such as checking weight, composition, etc? Would certain counterfeits reach that level where one must essentially duplicate the TPG process at each transaction stage? These are possibly worst-case scenarios of course, and it&#039;s more likely that such extreme counterfeits would only appear for certain issues, making the problem more confined, but how far could this go?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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