has been reported by Gene Trimble on thechipboard.com in a message he posted regarding "THE WORD" he got from someone while attending Bill Akeman's chip/token show in Las Vegas this weekend.

http://www.thechipboard.com/cgi-bin/tcb/tcb.pl?read=152638

Below that message are more related to that rumor as to whom may be giving their strikes to be slabbed.

I just hope that slabbing does NOT take hold in our hobby.

I've sent letters and e-mails to ICG regarding the cataloguing of their slabbs telling them that they may NOT use my catalogue numbers on their slabbed SILVER STRIKES if they ever do slab them.

Another problem with our silver strikes is that NO token should ever receive a PROOF grade as what was mentioned by the manufacturer at the convention during their seminar that Anchor Gaming receives what they pay for and they don't pay for PROOF type tokens.

While we as collectors may not be able to stop the slabbing companies from slabbing our Silver Strikes we can at least attempt to show them how unprofitable it may be by not buying their SLABS!