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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 103989, member: 112"]But Cloud, you say you order first strike ASEs - what makes you think the coins you are getting are first strikes ? There is absolutely no reason to expect that you will get a better coin by ordering it in January than you will by ordering one in October. The way these coins are manufactured - the dies are changed several times every single day of manufacture. So there are first strikes being made every single day - right along with old stirkes every single day.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to get a first strike - it's purely the luck of the draw. You have just as much chance of getting one at the end of the year as you do in the first of the year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now let me say that I define a first strike as a coin that is among the very first of those struck by a given pair of dies. For the sake of argument - we'll say it's the first 50 coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 103989, member: 112"]But Cloud, you say you order first strike ASEs - what makes you think the coins you are getting are first strikes ? There is absolutely no reason to expect that you will get a better coin by ordering it in January than you will by ordering one in October. The way these coins are manufactured - the dies are changed several times every single day of manufacture. So there are first strikes being made every single day - right along with old stirkes every single day. So to get a first strike - it's purely the luck of the draw. You have just as much chance of getting one at the end of the year as you do in the first of the year. Now let me say that I define a first strike as a coin that is among the very first of those struck by a given pair of dies. For the sake of argument - we'll say it's the first 50 coins.[/QUOTE]
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