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Message:: [QUOTE="ecichlid, post: 629227, member: 19376"]Exactly. There are many coins that go way up in price with just a few grading points. A counterfeiter would only need to perfect a conterfeit slab once and then make many of them. A coin is a much harder to fake as one could only make so many fakes of the same coin before the word gets out. Put a real MS-62 coin in a fake MS-64 slab and it's going to be very difficult to detect. Especailly if that slab uses a serial number from a real slab that is pictured online and happens to be the type of coin and the same grade. Without a online picture verification tool available, I think this whole TPG thing may be toast. Once a Chinese counterfeiter creates a darn good PCGS slab the game is over, UNLESS PCGS wants to counter this stretgy with their own. I see a way out, but it's not pretty.[/QUOTE]