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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 3655737, member: 59677&quot;]First strike is definitely a marketing gimmick.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins are put into tubes and the tubes into monster boxes and the boxes on to a pallet. The earliest ones are actually on the bottom. Then they&#039;re sent out to the authorized purchasers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The APs sometimes have coins sent directly from the Mint to PCGS to guarantee the 1st 30 days or whatever, but sometimes it gets shipped to the AP&#039;s warehouse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the ones that go to the AP&#039;s facility, they sell some boxes to customers and break them open to sell tubes and individual coins to the public. Who send them during the 1st 30 days to PCGS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you have ANY way of telling which are really the coins from that 1st box on the bottom of the pallet? Didn&#039;t think so.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Plus the dies get changed out fairly frequently. Isn&#039;t a coin from a fresh die better than the last coin from that 1st die even though it&#039;s day 33 instead of day 1?</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the sellers at ANA had their cases loaded with 20 different labels in piles.</p><p><br /></p><p>The people making money on grading modern bullion are the grading companies ($5/coin) and ???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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