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<p>[QUOTE="Numiscent, post: 560377, member: 16300"]Great topic! My mind must be too tired to think of problems or the ideal slab design, but I can think of a few features that I do like:</p><p><br /></p><p>-Stackable</p><p>-Sealed so that they cannot be neatly cracked open at the seam and reassembled. (NGC slabs seem to crack open so neatly, which is not good. ANACS gets second place.) </p><p>-Info readable from top of slab </p><p>-Firmly holds coin without rotation</p><p>-Edge of coin is not recessed in shadow, but more flush with the material it touches against</p><p><br /></p><p>Something I haven't seen but would like to see:</p><p>-Some sort of unique identifying feature that cannot be faked. Even current PCGS slabs can theoretically be fraudulently reproduced, which is curreently being attempted in China. The article I read pointing out the minor, subtle differences between real ones and fake was pretty frightening. It seemed to me that all of the little differences could be fixed easily, to the point that the fakes would be undetectable. I don't know what the solution is, but it seems that it would have to involve something unique, possibly random, that could not be reproduced over and over because of how it was unique to one slab.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numiscent, post: 560377, member: 16300"]Great topic! My mind must be too tired to think of problems or the ideal slab design, but I can think of a few features that I do like: -Stackable -Sealed so that they cannot be neatly cracked open at the seam and reassembled. (NGC slabs seem to crack open so neatly, which is not good. ANACS gets second place.) -Info readable from top of slab -Firmly holds coin without rotation -Edge of coin is not recessed in shadow, but more flush with the material it touches against Something I haven't seen but would like to see: -Some sort of unique identifying feature that cannot be faked. Even current PCGS slabs can theoretically be fraudulently reproduced, which is curreently being attempted in China. The article I read pointing out the minor, subtle differences between real ones and fake was pretty frightening. It seemed to me that all of the little differences could be fixed easily, to the point that the fakes would be undetectable. I don't know what the solution is, but it seems that it would have to involve something unique, possibly random, that could not be reproduced over and over because of how it was unique to one slab.[/QUOTE]
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