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Todd SchultzI hope you're right on that last point. Recolored or rebacked cards should not warrant an authentic grade, at least not one like Leon's card.
On the other hand, I've never had a problem with an authentic/altered tag. It can say Authentic in larger letters and trimmed, re-colored, etc below. I also would like to have the option to have cards slabbed as authentic/unaltered. Say I had a set of E95s, all in the 2-4 grade range. I might just like to see them all in one same-looking slab. Authentic/unaltered works for me(registry collectors might recoil in horror).
I also agree with others that you should be entitled to a slab if you paid for it, whatever the flip might read.