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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;quarter-back, post: 1857006, member: 47022&quot;]Assurance of authenticity is likely to become less of an issue as the counterfeiters get better at faking slabs.&nbsp; At that point, one will have to know the diagnostics for the slab as well as for the coin.&nbsp; I&#039;d be curious how many different types of slabs there actually are.&nbsp; We&#039;re probably getting to the point where we need a Red Book for &quot;United States Slabs&quot;.&nbsp; As for me, if I am confident that a coin is real, that&#039;s good enough. Someone once said that if you can&#039;t tell the difference between a real coin and a fake, then the fake is as good as real.&nbsp; I study the coins very carefully and pay attention to die markers.&nbsp; If a fake is good enough to have the correct die markers, I (and I&#039;d bet a lot of others) I would likely accept it as real.&nbsp; In this case, ignorance is really is bliss.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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