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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4611051, member: 26302"]I agree. No sense keeping generic issues with the coins secret. I understand maybe the scammers read posts like this, but good ones would know it already. This is really shoddy workmanship of the coin, but the slab is troubling. </p><p><br /></p><p>Problem is, once the fakes get better, if they are in plastic how are you going to prove it? That is why I hate slabs, due to that risk. I imagine making a perfect fake slab is way easier than a perfect fake coin. Make the slab perfect, get a good fake coin in there, (lots of things could be wrong with it internally but being in a slab you cannot prove it unless you crack it out), = PROFIT! You want to see money flee this hobby? Show collectors and dealers they cannot rely on slabs anymore and have to try to authenticate coins through plastic windows, (well, some parts of the hobby that is predicated on slabbed coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>That is the nightmare scenario the hobby does not wish to acknowledge, and the achilles heel of far too many relying on slabs rather than their own knowledge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4611051, member: 26302"]I agree. No sense keeping generic issues with the coins secret. I understand maybe the scammers read posts like this, but good ones would know it already. This is really shoddy workmanship of the coin, but the slab is troubling. Problem is, once the fakes get better, if they are in plastic how are you going to prove it? That is why I hate slabs, due to that risk. I imagine making a perfect fake slab is way easier than a perfect fake coin. Make the slab perfect, get a good fake coin in there, (lots of things could be wrong with it internally but being in a slab you cannot prove it unless you crack it out), = PROFIT! You want to see money flee this hobby? Show collectors and dealers they cannot rely on slabs anymore and have to try to authenticate coins through plastic windows, (well, some parts of the hobby that is predicated on slabbed coins). That is the nightmare scenario the hobby does not wish to acknowledge, and the achilles heel of far too many relying on slabs rather than their own knowledge.[/QUOTE]
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