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<p>[QUOTE="DoubleDie, post: 380661, member: 10132"]There's no privacy issue with my suggestion, with some modification. If I can access a photo and slabs label on a public website then so can this guy from china. He will spare no expense to make an exact replica. It's not the solution.</p><p> </p><p>I'm not against educating. My website is dedicated to this and I'm averaging 110 visits a day, and almost 9,000 page views a month. I often get emails of thanks, and questions. So I'm trying to do my part with pages for all business strike coins, errors, non-errors and TPG page.</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, I have a few other ideas also. Here's another suggestion.</p><p> </p><p>To make it more difficult on counterfeiters, why not make a hologram label number that shows symbols for the numbers when looking straight at the slab, but when turned one way shows a set of numbers, and then turned another way it shows another different set of numbers. It would be symbols and dual numbers that can't be copied from just a picture.</p><p> </p><p>For ebay sellers that sale slabs they would have enter both numbers before they can list in at auction. Ebay or any dealer can submit the numbers online, and the only responce from the grading service's data base would be authentic or fake, and no other details. Of course, some may want to verify all the information about the coin in a holder, and this would need a solution. </p><p> </p><p>This would not solve the older holder slabs from being copied, but if I had thousands or millions in my slabs then I would have them reholdered anyway. This all would start for this year and on. It doesn't solve the problem completely, but it would be a good start for the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DoubleDie, post: 380661, member: 10132"]There's no privacy issue with my suggestion, with some modification. If I can access a photo and slabs label on a public website then so can this guy from china. He will spare no expense to make an exact replica. It's not the solution. I'm not against educating. My website is dedicated to this and I'm averaging 110 visits a day, and almost 9,000 page views a month. I often get emails of thanks, and questions. So I'm trying to do my part with pages for all business strike coins, errors, non-errors and TPG page. Anyway, I have a few other ideas also. Here's another suggestion. To make it more difficult on counterfeiters, why not make a hologram label number that shows symbols for the numbers when looking straight at the slab, but when turned one way shows a set of numbers, and then turned another way it shows another different set of numbers. It would be symbols and dual numbers that can't be copied from just a picture. For ebay sellers that sale slabs they would have enter both numbers before they can list in at auction. Ebay or any dealer can submit the numbers online, and the only responce from the grading service's data base would be authentic or fake, and no other details. Of course, some may want to verify all the information about the coin in a holder, and this would need a solution. This would not solve the older holder slabs from being copied, but if I had thousands or millions in my slabs then I would have them reholdered anyway. This all would start for this year and on. It doesn't solve the problem completely, but it would be a good start for the future.[/QUOTE]
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