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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fred Weinberg, post: 2927626, member: 86437&quot;]You have your understanding of the Minting Process,</p><p>and I have mine. </p><p><br /></p><p>First you called them First Strikes, now you&#039;re calling them</p><p>First-Rate coins. I will agree that in general, the first</p><p>few thousand, to 10K strikes will look better than a coin</p><p>struck after the dies have struck 100,000 coins.&nbsp; That&#039;s</p><p>just the nature of the process. Other than that, there is</p><p>no special-ness about them, except they&#039;re nicer strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you enjoy finding or buying nicely struck coins, that&#039;s</p><p>great - that&#039;s what coin collecting is about.&nbsp; Please don&#039;t</p><p>try to convince us (or me) that there is anything else &#039;special&#039;</p><p>about them.&nbsp; Call them first strikes, fresh strikes, new strikes,</p><p>Lucky Strikes, whatever - they are coins minted in huge quantities</p><p>to be used for commerce, in circulation, by a manufacturing process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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