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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2253430, member: 15929&quot;]&quot;First Strike&quot; and &quot;Early Release&quot; were initially programs started for bullion coins only.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that PCGS expanded their First Strike program to include literally ANYTHING submitted for grading within 30 days of its release.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that&nbsp; think of it, I could not say for sure that any Early Release Kennedy&#039;s exist prior to 2011? which is around when PCGS started their program expansion. BTW, First Strike has to be requested at PCGS in addition to an $18 per coin charge.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for coins with earlier dates? Conder is correct in that the program (for PCGS) started on 2005 but if a sealed green monster box was submitted for grading which had a dated quality control slip inside of it, the coins could then qualify for First Strike label.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last time I&#039;d checked, the earliest Silver Eagles in First Strike Slabs were 1988&#039;s.</p><p>The current Pop Reports still show only 1988 SAE&#039;s with First Strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s really only a marketing scheme but there are folks out there that collect slab labels and not necessarily the coins within the labels. I imagine that if a collector had a sealed and dated original shipping bix of uncirculated sets that they could get First Strike or Early Release labels but then, I jumped off that ship about 5 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for my earlier reply regarding Kennedy&#039;s? I don&#039;t know what the he&#039;ll I was thinking other than I had Kennedy&#039;s on my brain when I replied.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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