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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 737935, member: 112&quot;]You have to be more specific about the exact coins you are talking about. And, you have to consider the manufacturing process itself. Business strikes for example are made on presses that have 4 sets of dies in them at a time. These presses turn out 1,000 coins per minute. Now do the math, that means that in a 24 hour period that 1 press can turn out 1,440,000 coins in 1 day. </p><p><br /></p><p>Depending on the coin being struck a set of dies may only last for 150,000 coins or it may last for over a million. So you could have as many as 40 dies being used on a single press in 1 day. And, dies are not changed in pairs, they are changed as they wear out. So you could have a worn obv and new rev being used together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now consider the other aspects of the minting process. As the coins are struck they are ejected from the presses into a huge hopper that can contain thousands and thousands of those coins. So in 1 hopper load you might have coins struck by several sets of new dies mixed with coins struck by worn out dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>So now tell me, how could anybody even remotely consider the coins in that first hooper load as being first strikes ? And realize, a single hopper load weighs about a ton, 2,000 pounds. How many coins is that ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Then those hopper loads of coins are placed into a single large bag also weighing a ton. They sit in a room waiting to be loaded onto trucks for distribution. You could have the bags of several days production all mixed together. And nobody makes any effort to load this one first or that one first. They take the one in front, which of course will be the last bag placed there - not the first, even if they all came from the same day&#039;s production.</p><p><br /></p><p>So any pretense at calling any coin a first strike is a joke, beyond a joke.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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