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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 5379859, member: 77413&quot;]I am surprised that no one has mentioned that all coins are copies. Each impression of the dies is <i>intended</i> to create one more identical copy of the coin. Philosophically, they are individual instances of that object, but theoretically they have no individual identity. </p><p><br /></p><p>This differs markedly from art and antiquities. Each painting is unique - and you can distinguish it from forgeries. Each numbered print is hand-numbered by the artist just so it can be distinguished, uniquely, from the other copies. </p><p><br /></p><p>That is not how coins are made. They are not individually registered. </p><p><br /></p><p>You may argue that with digital tomography you could convert a very high resolution photograph into a unique digital signature. But even that line blurs when you are grading MS70 proofs - each should be perfect and indistinguishable. </p><p><br /></p><p>That pretty much leaves us with marking each coin with a unique identifier. Oh, isn’t that just slabbing them? And then we could just set up a registry if they get stolen. Oh, isn’t that already available?</p><p><br /></p><p>So I don’t see that there is a problem here we need to solve. We just need to use the systems we have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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