To be honest we dont know. However because the root of this problem is fake share certificates and there are some circumstance when you would need to be able to produce a genuine certificate.
As a hypothetical example, if there was a take over or buy out of the existing company as a result of which there was a share exchange, the new company would want to make sure you had genuine shares not fake ones.
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