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Message:: [QUOTE="Troodon, post: 26518200, member: 4626"]Can't say I see the point in spending money for someone to confirm what you already know.  It would be another thing entirely if you think it's more likely than not that it's real, and you want confirmation of that fact; that seems worth the price of the service.  Otherwise... just seems like a waste of time and money. As a warning to other collectors?  Well what's to stop someone else from just taking it out of the "body bag" and passing it off as real again?  Too expensive just to make a point you can make for free: caveat emptor (may the buyer beware).  If you want to permanently keep someone else from being fooled by the counterfeit, destroy it or in some way permanently mark it as "copy" or "not genuine" or something of the sort.  Or keep it in your collection to keep it from getting out in the world again.  A "body bag" from a TPG is not permanent, because it can easily just be taken out of it. I've only had one coin I've ever submitted (to ANACS) come back as counterfeit; oddly it's a coin that would have been only worth about $15 if it was real, so I wonder why anyone bothered to fake it (practice maybe, or maybe it was just a copy, not properly stamped as such, but never meant to fool anyone).  I still have it in my collection, labeled as a copy.[/QUOTE]