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Dated slabs
coded slabs tracing pedigree on a website with scanned documentation
Insurance with slabs with trackable chips embedded into the slabs
Slabs graded Genuine are cost reduced to 10 bucks....
Mark
coded slabs tracing pedigree on a website with scanned documentation
Insurance with slabs with trackable chips embedded into the slabs
Slabs graded Genuine are cost reduced to 10 bucks....
Mark
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<< <i>Slabs graded Genuine are cost reduced to 10 bucks....
Mark >>
i have always wondered about "transparency" with regard to TPG's and when their respective slabs were entered into their databases. it should be a simple fact that is made available when the Cert # is checked; instead, it is a fact which is hidden and judging from the responses whenever the topic is brought up with customer service or any of the PCGS question forums incarnations, they have deemed it a guardable piece of information. my only hunch is that knowing a 100% specific date when a coin has been encapsulated somehow leaves each service open to some type of liability, criticism or manipulation which they choose not to entertain.
i think date graded transparency for a TPG from date of inception forward would be a good thing. i also think it will not happen soon.
2) I can see trackable chips to avoid the fraudulent Chinese coins.
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
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<< <i>Slabs graded Genuine are cost reduced to 10 bucks....
Mark >>
They charge that much just to reholder a coin.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
<< <i>1) Slab dates are deemed to be proprietary information / trade secrets, and you and I are never going to see them.
2) I can see trackable chips to avoid the fraudulent Chinese coins. >>
Tracking chips in the holders will NEVER fly...privacy, theft, IRS, ex-wives, etc., etc. are all problems with a tracking chip.
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<< <i>1) Slab dates are deemed to be proprietary information / trade secrets, and you and I are never going to see them.
2) I can see trackable chips to avoid the fraudulent Chinese coins. >>
Tracking chips in the holders will NEVER fly...privacy, theft, IRS, ex-wives, etc., etc. are all problems with a tracking chip. >>
and has been brought up before.
crack a coin and it can be sold raw.
counterfeit a holder and chip and you fool a lot of people.
Not sure of the logistics/possibilities, but I think it could be done.
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
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<< <i>1) Slab dates are deemed to be proprietary information / trade secrets, and you and I are never going to see them.
2) I can see trackable chips to avoid the fraudulent Chinese coins. >>
Tracking chips in the holders will NEVER fly...privacy, theft, IRS, ex-wives, etc., etc. are all problems with a tracking chip. >>
Unlike many, if not most, of my buds, I have yet to be afflicted with an ex-wife, and wonder about why you are mentioning them in this context?
"Question your assumptions."
"Intelligence is an evolutionary adaptation."
Customer tracking devices.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
<< <i>Every coin that grades out and is valued over five hundred dollars gets a photo filed in the database. This will be available as part of the check-certification offered. Chinese counterfeiters will have trouble passing off expensive coins in pcgs fake slabs. >>
Kind of like what ngc started earlier this year?
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
Not sure if I'm ready for more "change".
"“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)
"I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
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No way. That policy ruined ANACS back in the early 1980s. They announced that their grading standards had gotten too lax and that they were chaning them. It was the beginning of the end for the ANA owned company, and road to "less than prime time player" status for the brand name.
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<< <i>Every coin that grades out and is valued over five hundred dollars gets a photo filed in the database. This will be available as part of the check-certification offered. Chinese counterfeiters will have trouble passing off expensive coins in pcgs fake slabs. >>
Kind of like what ngc started earlier this year? >>
Didn't know NGC was doing that, but if so, then yes.
I don't know what good a "chip" or RFID tag would do, but if I could look at a coin on ebay, compare it's cert number to the PCGS database and see an image of the coin then I could have a good idea if I was buying the real deal or not.
Although as I think about it, a PCGS image could be edited into the ebay photo and all would look right (if the editing was done well), and I'd pay a huge sum and receive a fake coin in a fake holder in the mail. sigh. Guess it's just better to buy from reputable dealers and in person when possible huh...
Virtual Coin Collecting... you send your coins to PCGS to be graded and you receive your "slabs" online. The original coins will be stored at PCGS and you will buy/sell/trade collect your slabs online. No more worrying about theft, counterfits, milk spots, copper turning RB or BN, etc. You new "slabs" will live forever!
Hell I might even be willing to pay a small fee to have those I have now set up with a dated holder as to when it was ORIGINALLY graded!
A misfortune of mine already sees a needed database service to list lost or stolen coins. I won’t go into details, but the coin shown below went missing several years ago. When a coin of this caliber surfaces, a perspective buyer should be able to validate the legitimacy of the seller and the coin by checking to see if the coin carries with it a questionable past. Every coin is as unique as your own fingerprint. The combination of all those little ticks, die scratches, strike details like; surface quality, letter and step details, cannot be duplicated or totally altered.
Now the real question is, who will step up to the plate!
Oh yes, this is a 1942-D / Horizontal D.
Dowgie