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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silver Striker, post: 168218, member: 1745&quot;]I believe that someone around here said it best.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;FIRST RELEASED&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This would be a much more accurate term to use than &quot;FIRST STRIKE&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>From what all I understand regarding the hobby, nearly all collectors would agree that the TPG&#039;ers are misusing a general term used by collectors&nbsp; that referrs to coins first off the new die as &quot;First Strikes&quot;.&nbsp; To what end?&nbsp; To confuse the newest collectors to the hobby and generate more bucks from the likes of The Coin Vault and others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I attended the Santa Clara coin show on Saturday and was surprised to see very few FIRST STRIKE encapsulated coins available.&nbsp; Also, I didn&#039;t see ONE SGS slabbed coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, the bulk of the slabbed items were by PCGS and NGC.&nbsp; I saw few ICG and ANACS products at the tables.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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