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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ddddd, post: 3059212, member: 22377&quot;]If it’s a PCGS slab, they allow coins still sealed in the original box (that were bought in the period that qualified for first strike) to be sent in at any time for the first strike designation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of those 2011 sets were reported to have arrived with coins outside the capsule. Those coins could have reacted with the blue velvet while resting in the sealed box for multiple years (or very quickly if the conditions of storage were conducive to toning). Someone may have sent that sealed box in recently. PCGS graded them with First Strike labels and thus you see toned coins in those slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course someone could have also gassed the slab, but for the 2011 set I believe the first solution is more likely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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