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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2072059, member: 73489&quot;]<b><span style="color: #0000ff">It&#039;s only a marketing ploy.&nbsp; It means absolutely nothing except to those who want to pay an additional premium.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;First Strike&quot; and &quot;Early Release&quot; imply that it was one of the first or earliest pieces struck at the mint.&nbsp; In fact, all it means is that it was one of the first or earliest to be submitted to PCGS or NGC. </p><p>The first 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 coins could have gone straight to people who hoarded them and never submitted them to a TPG...meanwhile coins above 101 or 1,001 or 10,001 reached a TPG.</p><p><br /></p><p>All the coins are sent out at the same time so there&#039;s no way to know which was struck first or earliest unless the Mint or Mint Director certifies it as such (which they don&#039;t do).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Here&#039;s a great article on the practice:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coinweek.com/featured-news/are-ms-70-coins-value-traps/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinweek.com/featured-news/are-ms-70-coins-value-traps/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinweek.com/featured-news/are-ms-70-coins-value-traps/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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