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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 103894, member: 2761&quot;]I am in agreement that this whole first strike designation is just plain nonsense.&nbsp; Let&#039;s put it this way.&nbsp; They market coins that are minted during the very first days of mintage, hence the term &quot;first strike&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>But what would you rather have:&nbsp; The 10,000th coin minted from a given die during this initial period of time...or...the first coin minted from a brand new set of dies later in the year?&nbsp; </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Call me crazy, I would rather have a coin minted at the beginning of a die&#039;s life than one minted during the first month near the END of a die&#039;s &quot;life&quot;.&nbsp; So all of this first striked stuff is just &quot;fluff&quot;...nothing more and in my opinion, a way for TPG&#039;s to try to generate additional income on modern&#039;s which really are the future of their business.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all, how many times can you grade a coin 100 years old?&nbsp; Put &quot;crack-out and resubmissions&quot; aside for minute...the TPG&#039;s all realize that coins that have been submitted from the past have pretty well already been submitted, graded, and encapsulated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The future of TPG&#039;s business again, is with moderns!&nbsp; Mint Sets, Satin-Finish (another bogus item to generate more cash), Proofs, Commem&#039;s, etc.&nbsp; If the TPG&#039;s can figure out how to generate MORE with this 1st Strike nonsense, they will![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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