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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;line_grade, post: 155263, member: 3078&quot;]According to the U.S. Mint website concerning&nbsp; the issue of &quot;first strike&quot; coins, there is no record or numbering system in place at the production level to tell if one coin was&nbsp; struck before the other. Any time I hear the claim of &quot;first strike&quot;, whether it be from the television sales stations, whether or not it&#039;s packaging in the N.G.C. or P.S.G.S. or I.C.G. services, or any one else for that matter it makes my blood boil. There is no such thing, except if you&#039;re the guy working on the press at the U.S. Mint and you put&nbsp; the &quot;first struck&quot; coin in your pocket and take it home after work.&nbsp;&nbsp; They may be referring to a batch of coins struck on the first die, or the first ones to be packaged (by a seperate entity not necessarily in any sort of order).&nbsp; The whole concept is simply a marketing scheme to charge a premium for the item.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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