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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 24704754, member: 27832&quot;]I feel like it&#039;s more than a <i>little</i> unnecessary.</p><p><br /></p><p>There aren&#039;t any 1948 Franklins that are <i>not</i> &quot;first year of issue&quot;, so it doesn&#039;t convey any information that you can&#039;t get from simply looking at the coin&#039;s date. That makes this different from all the &quot;first strike&quot;/&quot;early release&quot;/&quot;from unopened cereal box&quot; labels -- I don&#039;t like those either, but at least for those they can claim that it provides additional information about the specific coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see that NGC offers both &quot;<a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5151/First-Year-of-Issue/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5151/First-Year-of-Issue/" rel="nofollow">First Year of Issue</a>&quot; <i>and</i> &quot;<a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/8714/last-year-of-issue/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/8714/last-year-of-issue/" rel="nofollow">Last Year of Issue</a>&quot; labels. They apparently treat State and Territorial and America the Beautiful as two separate single issues, instead of counting each year; I don&#039;t know why they left <i>that</i> money on the table, except that perhaps someone in their marketing department <i>is</i> still capable of feeling a tiny bit of shame. (But if you&#039;re a <i>serious</i> label completist, you&#039;d better send in two 1793 half cents, one for each of the labels available for that issue.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Who cares? Me, apparently. I don&#039;t know why I feel compelled to provide ridicule when a company invites it, but it is what it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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