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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;danmar2, post: 2530922, member: 74204&quot;]I collect ASE&#039;s as well. MS, PF and Burnished. Still working on a set of PF 70&#039;s and I have a set of &#039;W&#039; Burnished Early Release coins. A few of the proofs get pretty costly, like the 93, 94, and especially the 95 W. Many of the earlier MS 70 coins are very costly as well so I stuck with MS69 coins. As far as some of the designations go, Chris is right that they mean very little. First Strike, First Day of Issue, First Releases, Early Releases, only mean that they were sent to the graders within a particular time period. They have nothing to do with when the coins were minted (or that they are &#039;better&#039; than other MS69 graded coins). (Except maybe the 2008 Reverse of the 2007 W Burnished Silver Eagle. About 30,000 to 40,000 were produced before the Mint caught the error and they had already been shipped out.) If you&#039;ve ever worked in a factory you&#039;d realize that the first items produced are not necessarily the first items to go out which is what happens at the Mint.</p><p>That being said, I did get <i>stuck</i> into the designations on the MS coins. I collect NGC coins only for the set and I am working on an NGC set of First Strike/First Release coins. Only missing the 1999 in MS69 First Release. (NGC no longer uses the First Strike designation. I think they were sued by PCGS for Trademark infringement, or something like that and are no longer able to use it, hence the First Release/Early Release/First Day of Issue designations. NGC discontinued using First Strike after 2006.) Again, like Chris said, if you looked at an MS69 coin without one of the designations, you would not be able to tell the difference between one that has a First Strike, First Day of Issue, etc and one that doesn&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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