This is a photo of a slab of counterfeit PCGS made in China. Appeared in the collector's survival Manual of coins of Scott a. Travers, where it is represented in two beautiful, high quality colour images (6th ed., Random House,). With this photo of slab counterfeit PCGS and another that Travers obtained from PCGS, Travers reveals for the first time the key diagnostic that the coin dealers had kept to themselves, (supposedly at the insistence of PCGS). Counterfeit PCGS holders do not stack correctly with other counterfeit holders, nor have stack with true PCGS holders.
Although this diagnostic is certainly useful and important doesn't help the large number of coin collectors who buy their currencies online. Because I developed an interim report with some Chinese currency counterfeiters, who speak to me know that I am a journalist, because I am sure they don't break any laws in China, I decided to ask a couple of them, if they knew who was doing the counterfeit PCGS slabs. It turns out one of them did!
