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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2499818, member: 59677&quot;]I think the whole first strike stuff is garbage. It just means they were in the hands of the TPG during the early part of the release schedule. Nothing more or less.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint strikes enough to meet the estimated need. They are stacked in the warehouse until shipment. There&#039;s no measurable &quot;first&quot; from a die pair involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>With coins that have very limited mintages, they are all essential struck in the same time window. For less restricted mintage coins, *if* the mint sells out the initial mintage, they make more, as needed based on available time on the presses, until they reach the mintage limit or other limits.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no way to identify (other than die wear which is not terribly accurate unless the dies are being over used) the first coin from the last.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I don&#039;t get the whole thing. It&#039;s just $9 for a stupid label.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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