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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismania, post: 1923903, member: 28971&quot;]Conder...I totally agree with your comment regarding the buyer needing to know the difference between an authentic slab, vs. a fake.&nbsp; As of now, the only thing that really stands out, at quick glance, to my eyes, is the font and letter/number placement on the cert, and the &#039;casual&#039; collector, that just &#039;buys the holder&#039;, will not be any wiser, and get taken to town.&nbsp; Should they EVER get THAT &#039;down pat&#039;, it&#039;s going to make things very dicey, and could cast a very large cloud over our hobby.&nbsp; They have really ramped up their work on trying to duplicate U.S. coinage, and have been doing a much better job making a good, passable, product manufactured, much better than what we were seeing just a few years ago.&nbsp; Now, their focus is on slabs.&nbsp; Heaven help us if they really get to the point of being able to duplicate, exactly, with proper metal content, a coin and putting them into a counterfeit slab that has the proper font and placement of letters/numbers on these fake certs.&nbsp; They&#039;ve been working very hard, and I feel it&#039;s only a matter of time until they DO get it &#039;down pat&#039;.&nbsp; The only saving grace would be the bar code, and those can, and eventually will be, next on their agenda.&nbsp; Of course, this doesn&#039;t help those who aren&#039;t &#039;well versed&#039; in what the Chinese are doing, and have already spent good money for these fakes.&nbsp; I could say it&#039;s the buyer&#039;s own fault, but the Chinese are getting very good, and those who don&#039;t &#039;do their homework&#039; will get pounded.&nbsp; We&#039;ve seen it happen, are seeing it happen, and will continue to see it happen.&nbsp; And there&#039;s not a damn thing we, as collectors, can do about it, except keep, and stay, informed of the progress they are making with these bogus pieces (and bogus slabs).&nbsp; The always-advancing progress the Chinese counterfeiter&#039;s keep making, will continue to progress until their product IS a perfect example.&nbsp; It&#039;s getting scary.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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