SLABBED COIN WITH GENETIC CODE

GOLDENBOY

Do you think that in the future, slabbed coins would be digitally photographed and stored in a database so that there will be no more slab cracking? When a coin is submitted for grading, then before it gets examined, the coin will be compared first to the database of digital photographs and if it's already in database, then it won't be graded differently.

kieferscoins

No. The grading services really benifit with cracking. It generates more revenue.

Cameron Kiefer

MadMonk

<< <i>No. The grading services really benifit with cracking. It generates more revenue.

Cameron Kiefer >>


Reeeeaaaalllly?

MrEureka

No chance.

Conder101

That capability has existed since at least 1990-91. As part of the computer grading programs that PCGS and others were promoting at that time it was stated that the scanned coins would result in a digital fingerprint map of all of the marks and features on the coin and that these should be unique to the coin. Then if it was cracked out and resubmitted in the future it could be identified. When the idea of grading by computer died the idea of digital identification was quietly dropped as well. It is the one feature of using computers as part of the grading process that I agree with.

It would also be useful in tracing stolen coins. If a digitally id'd coin was stolen the victim could report it to the service. Even if it was cracked out and resubmitted the computer would flag it as the stolen coin or as potentially a stolen coin.