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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8112976, member: 19463&quot;]It might be good to compare the coin situation to other professional opinions.&nbsp; When you go to a doctor who says you have a month to live, does he kill you in 30 days?&nbsp; When a person spends 50 years in jail for a crime he did not commit and is released after new evidence is found, does he get his life back?&nbsp; When you buy a property and someone later shows the seller had no good title are you glad you paid extra for title insurance?&nbsp; Opinions are just that.&nbsp; We could probably obtain something akin to title insurance protecting a buyer from TPG errors but how much additional would you be willing to pay for each &#039;guaranteed&#039; opinion?&nbsp; That leaves the problem of having to prove that the latest opinion that a coin was fake was more valid that the earlier on that it was good.&nbsp; The only benefit to all this would be to the lawyers who get paid as much for being on the wrong side as being right. I value the opinion of the NGC graders.&nbsp; What I disparage is the way their slabs encourage the buying and selling of labeled plastic boxes between two parties that know absolutely nothing about the coins inside.&nbsp; I would prefer boxes that snap open and shut but I realize the need to prevent coins being removed and damaged before being replaced.&nbsp; Modern coins which exist by the thousands so identical that it is hard to tell them apart needed the sealed certainty of not being tampered with.&nbsp; Ancients are significantly more different one from another and make photo certificates more reasonable but that still leaves the possibility of damage after the TPG opinion had been rendered.&nbsp; I am really tired of hearing that NGC does not guarantee their work. This came up once previously in my experience.&nbsp; Eastman Kodak made film for cameras.&nbsp; If I bought a roll that was bad or lost in processing, their contractual guarantee limited their liability to the price paid for film and processing.&nbsp; If you took that film on your European vacation, they did not send you back for a reshoot.&nbsp; Perhaps it would be reasonable for NGC to be expected to return your $50 (or whatever you paid) but I suspect that a definite fake in a genuine NGC slab would sell as well as a genuine example of that type.&nbsp; One of us here on CT had such a fake coin in NGC slab.&nbsp; I sent them my Raw example of that fake in the belief that they were worth more as a set.&nbsp; I have forgotten who it was or if he is still with us but I hope he has kept the two together.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411659[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Currently, I own only one coin in a slab but it is by a worthless company that could not tell one son of Constantine from another let alone be trusted to authenticate a coin.&nbsp; I do not have a photo of the whole slab but this image shows the coin and the label rearranged.&nbsp; On several occasions I have been tempted to crack this out so I could examine the coin (which I believe to be genuine - just misidentified).&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411660[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As a collector, I would enjoy owning a fake in NGC plastic and agree that NGC would be better off buying back their errors to put in their &#039;Black Museum&#039;.&nbsp; I would be interested in knowing the exact number of such fakes that they have released but that is not a number I expect to be forthcoming.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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