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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CentDime, post: 252418, member: 7297&quot;]i think if you look long-term, imagine in fifty years you see a 2005 coin graded First Strike ms70. You will know that coin was graded in the first month of its release and not cracked out twenty times to get the grade. It will not have been dipped or cleaned, it will have no foreign substance on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is why long-term I like the First Strike coins and why I think they will hold the extra value. I wouldn&#039;t have a problem with them changing the term First Strike but either way I think the first strike label will be valuable down the road.</p><p><br /></p><p>And just look at how hard it is to get these spouse coins in a first strike holder. My earliest order is already backed out beyond&nbsp; the first strike deadline so the ones in those holders are already special. I want my coins in a first strike holder and can&#039;t get it, once you miss the deadline unless it was shipped earlier then you have no chance left.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes there are modern coins dipped and cleaned to make slabs, it happens already so it will only get worse as the years go by. But the first strike coins can&#039;t be taken out and messed with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the term First Strike misleading, maybe, but the benefit of the slab to me outweighs the words, and people are paying more for them and I think rightly so. Eventually they will be seen as limited early gradings like they are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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