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Message:: [QUOTE="tcore, post: 167766, member: 2949"]There was a big article about the First Strike designations in COINage magazine this month too. They basically also said what a crock it is. NGC says that its designation is "different" than PCGS's because NGC says "FIRST STRIKES" with the S on the end instead of First Strike. How lame is that? I definitely think that the grading companies should stop using it. I won't buy coins with these designations myself. Because of the lengthy process that the mint goes through to make collector coins, I think that it would add a lot of work for them to keep track of the one first coin from each die pair through the process. However, if they were to do that, what would be cool is to just package that one up like any other coin, but put a certificate in with it about it being the first strike. Then, people would randomly get them when they receive their coins.[/QUOTE]