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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 921717, member: 66"]It may not be that hard to prove.  This scanning technology they recently announced has been around for awhile and PCGS has probably been playing with it and testing it for months before they announced it.  I suspect that they have a record of coins that were submitted back when they were running their tests which a month later were coming back through again from the same submitters and the equipment was flagging them as being the same coin but they are now "different" than they were the first time through.  The flagging made them take a closer look and the found the alterations or features which were there the first time are no longer there (certain bagmarks etc)  Add to that coins that have been submitted by those same people which later turned in the holder and PCGS had to buy back casts more suspicion.  In the past PCGS just bought them back because there would be no way to prove they knowingly submitted altered pieces, but now the new equipment is allowing them to say yes they ARE altering the coins to try and get an unwarranted higher grade.[/QUOTE]