The Trifecta, CN Counterfeit Coin, Slab and Website !

As if the Chinese counterfeit coins in fake PCGS slabs isn’t bad enough, now there appears to be a fake Chinese PCGS website to verify them…

A friend alerted me to the following listing on the Bay this past week:

The listing included these interesting other images:

So, I started with the “PCGS” slab and some quick checks. Using my on-line barcode scanner I checked the front barcode:

Like many similar bad slabs, the barcode was gibberish and would not scan. Next, I went to the PCGS website to check the noted cert number:

And another bad sign, that cert # “was not found”. So, my next step was to try to read the reverse label QR code. And just a note, many of the previous counterfeits we have documented similar to this one had a QR code that read the cert # correctly but noted the genuine PCGS CN site. A previous example read like this:

And then this one:

Different result than expected- I do NOT recommend readers going to the site shown, but if you did this is what comes up:

WOW, now we have something apparently new to be concerned about with these…

I did notify my contacts at PCGS for a heads-up on this latest development!

Best, Jack.