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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 964261, member: 15199&quot;]Welcome to the forum!</p><p><br /></p><p>You might find the article below interesting. You can also google &quot;NGC first strike&quot; and &quot;PCGS first strike&quot;&nbsp; to get their definitions , although NGC has discontinued the use of the phrase.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.lipcon.com/news_archive/news_article84.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lipcon.com/news_archive/news_article84.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.lipcon.com/news_archive/news_article84.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The premium on the coin is illusionary in my opinion. The 99,999th first strike&nbsp; coin will be on the average, much worse than the first tens of&nbsp; thousands on the second set of dies. You are paying $25 for the coin and $175 for the slab and label. </p><p><br /></p><p>There will be thousands of people who (IMO) in the future will find that once the hype has lowered that their labeled coins will not be valued at what they were told they would. There will probably still be people who will pay a premium for them, but I predict much less. </p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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