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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Inspector43, post: 4104884, member: 89213&quot;]Following is what I got back from Coin World when I question the First Strike and First Release attributes:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;We have written a number of stories on the subject. It may be time to do another. The Early Release and First Strike designations are a marketing tool. Like I said in my previous response, NGC and PCGS reserve those designations for coins shipped out of the West Point Mint within the first 30 days of release. There’s no way of knowing whether the coin is the first struck off a pair of dies or the 1,500th or 2,000th, for that matter, depending on die life. The West Point Mint ships the coins to the U.S. Mint’s contracted order fulfillment center in Memphis, and it’s from there the coins are shipped to the customers who ordered them.&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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