Help me understand

If I can get the American Liberty medals offered today and send them off to PCGS why would I need the special labels?

• Pricing: Service level fee plus American Liberty label fee of $18 per coin for First Strike or $9 for non-First Strike
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• There are only 12,500 of each being minted
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• So wouldn't they all be early release
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• And couldn't you see the medal is a American Liberty without the notation.
• Maybe they should offer braille for the seeing impaired
• Just wondering
• For $18 I can get a large pizza or for $9 a small one, which I think would be money better spent.

 

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Why are you sending then to in for slabbing?
That answer might answer your other questions -- at least some of them.

 

I think the whole first strike stuff is garbage. It just means they were in the hands of the TPG during the early part of the release schedule. Nothing more or less.

The mint strikes enough to meet the estimated need. They are stacked in the warehouse until shipment. There's no measurable "first" from a die pair involved.

With coins that have very limited mintages, they are all essential struck in the same time window. For less restricted mintage coins, *if* the mint sells out the initial mintage, they make more, as needed based on available time on the presses, until they reach the mintage limit or other limits.

There is no way to identify (other than die wear which is not terribly accurate unless the dies are being over used) the first coin from the last.

So I don't get the whole thing. It's just $9 for a stupid label.

 

The whole First Strike thing is completely a con. This particular con job, plus many many more, are brought to you by the fine folks out at PCGS, or Plenty of Coins Gullibly Slabbed, as I like to call them.

 

The whole TPG slab thing is a con ... I want to see my coins unobstructed without having to look at them thru plastic windows. So I would never buy a slabbed coin for my collection, unless it was to break it out of the slab and set it free.

 

Yes, I myself have liberated many an imprisoned coin. Attica! Free the Chicago Seven! (Or was that Rosemont?) I save their serial numbers (labels) in my grooveyard of forgotten plastic hits.

The blue PCGS file boxes do make wonderful window boxes for growing fresh herbs in that oh too small urban apartment lifestyle. "It's a good thing."

 

Domino's offers two large 3-topping pizzas for $7.99 each.

Chris

 

No I"m not sending them in just wondering.
I just might put them in with my ASE's or order some slabs from China to put them in.

 

Wow that's even better

 

Does PCGS make a slab to fit these pizzas? If not, why not? Collectors want to keep their sets complete and consistent, you know.

 

Probable not, but Capitol Plastic may make one.

 

How many sets of plastic screws would THAT take, and how many would bounce away and hide in the carpet?

 

I cannot help you understand what I do not understand myself.

 

Thank goodness I have hardwood floors

 

Free the....pizzas.

 

We are not alone

 

and for $6 I just may go see War Dogs this afternoon.
That is after I order my coins.

 

SAVE YOUR $'S

 

And my solution is a big honkin' bag of extra Capitol screw sets. My carpets consume them like the dryer consumes socks.

 

Looks like I did had them in my shopping cart then they were sold out. Well I'll just buy a real coin.