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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 147156, member: 669&quot;]Hi twentyseven, and&nbsp; <img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> to CoinTalk.</p><p><br /></p><p>The short answer to your question is that giving a coin a &quot;first strike&quot; designation is nothing more than a marketing tool, designed to attract the kind of person who has to be first kid on the block with a new toy.&nbsp; As you so correctly point out, every die produces one (and only one) first strike, but that&#039;s not what is being marketed - for the very good reason that there is no way for even mint employees to identify the first piece, or the first several pieces, coming from the coin press after a die change.</p><p><br /></p><p>The advertising gimmick is to simply claim that a coin was &quot;among&quot; the first strikes of that particular combination of design/date/mint mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sad to say, some of the top third party graders go along with this gimmick, and will put a &quot;first strike&quot; designator on the first batch of a particular coin submitted for grading by a seller who will pay them a good price. <img src="http://www.wtv-zone.com/fantome/smileys/puke-smiley.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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