Real Cohiba?
- Thread starter mrblahman
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Pic of a real one. You can see the spacing on the squares is perfect and the "Habana, Cuba" is a lot more crisp. I'd have to go with fake, sorry brother. I hate that shit, I have a couple questionable Cohibas in my humi as well, luckily they were gifted to me.
You never can know, I know some people have spotted evidence of fake behikes with holograms that were fairly convincing, but I am going to have to go with real on this one...
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he dot spacing was more of an issue with the old style band, the hologram is correct, the small head inside of the large head are correct.... A Cohiba has a very specific taste, pretty easy to tell if it is real or fake if you are brave enough to light it...
Also, the squares are always slightly off from each other even in the same box... It's like they print each part of the band at a different time, alignment issues happen...
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he dot spacing was more of an issue with the old style band, the hologram is correct, the small head inside of the large head are correct.... A Cohiba has a very specific taste, pretty easy to tell if it is real or fake if you are brave enough to light it...
Also, the squares are always slightly off from each other even in the same box... It's like they print each part of the band at a different time, alignment issues happen...
icehog3
Outlaw Hockey Biker
Easy if you are already familiar with the taste of a real Cohiba.
Where'd you buy it?
StogieNinja
Derek | BoM June 2014
Are you seeing new bands' squares misaligned? I haven't seen that with the new bands (though my exposure is admittedly limited). I'd say fake, personally.
ChuckMejia
The General
I compared these pics to a tubo I got from Chef... and the difference between them is huge. This one just looks sketchy, I am gonna lean with sketch.
memphsdad
But I don't live in Memphis
There's something about that gold ring around the center of the tubo that looks off, can't remember exactly cuz I don't have one in front of me
I don't like the script in Habana, Cuba. The scrolling on the H is too thick, and the H doesn't seem slanted enough. Also the b&a in Cuba look too close together. There is definetly more space between them in the example on Cuban Cigar Website.
What year was it? Powerful is not what comes to mind when I think of the Cohiba Piramides.
Tubos swapping is common practice.
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I don't have any experience with Tubos and after pulled a few boxes of new bands I'm going to go with fake on the dots... If the bottom dots are screwed up the top should be too since the alignment would be screwed up both top and bottom if it was a printing error.
Wouldn't put to much emphasis on the sharpness of Habana though, some are razor sharp and some are fuzzy (different boxes but all from the vendors that most here get their sticks)
Live and learn though and more importantly welcome, I'm sure there are more than a few people here that can point you in the right direction of legit habanos.
Wouldn't put to much emphasis on the sharpness of Habana though, some are razor sharp and some are fuzzy (different boxes but all from the vendors that most here get their sticks)
Live and learn though and more importantly welcome, I'm sure there are more than a few people here that can point you in the right direction of legit habanos.