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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3974239, member: 26302"]Wow. Definitely looks like someone was trying to mass market the concept of making fake slabs only for profit. </p><p><br /></p><p>Problem is, what happens when the slabs get better? It is not exactly rocket science to make better slabs and copies of TPG paper inserts. If they copy real cert numbers, print up authentic looking inserts, and then put an authentic but lower grade coin into the slab...…. These in the pic are bad enough, but what if they get a lot better?</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the solution could be that the TPGs could create a rfid tag or similar to place into the slab, but then that would not be bullet proof versus copying and would require all coins to be reslabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eh, I will stick with my (mainly) unslabbed pieces. I do use TPGs for authenticity for certain coins or dates that I am overly concerned with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3974239, member: 26302"]Wow. Definitely looks like someone was trying to mass market the concept of making fake slabs only for profit. Problem is, what happens when the slabs get better? It is not exactly rocket science to make better slabs and copies of TPG paper inserts. If they copy real cert numbers, print up authentic looking inserts, and then put an authentic but lower grade coin into the slab...…. These in the pic are bad enough, but what if they get a lot better? Of course, the solution could be that the TPGs could create a rfid tag or similar to place into the slab, but then that would not be bullet proof versus copying and would require all coins to be reslabbed. Eh, I will stick with my (mainly) unslabbed pieces. I do use TPGs for authenticity for certain coins or dates that I am overly concerned with.[/QUOTE]
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