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"FIRST STRIKE" Garbage

Deb048goldDeb048gold Posts: 192
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What was PCGS thinking to designate "First Strike" to this years coins? As if that is going to be a collectible?
IMHO all it does is screw up the continuity of some of our sets. Besides the packaging of the American flag with gold lettering looks like it came out of a Wheaties box of cereal. Give me a break!

Am I the only one that will be wanting the original packaging?

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  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭
    Interestingly, this designation has nothing to do with the actual coin being graded but when and how it was submitted. Collect the plastic not the coin?!?
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  • RickMilauskasRickMilauskas Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭
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  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,024 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well , there may be another approach to all of this.

    The first strike might be interesting to collectors if it was among the first few coins to be released to the public.

    For example, I was at the FUN show in 1999 when the US Mint officially released the Delaware to the public. Sure, they had a release in Delaware a day or two earlier but that doesn't count!

    I have a bunch of the "FIRST HOUR RELEASE" of the statehood quarters issued in a special vinyl 2x2 all personally signed by Philip Diehl, Director of the US Mint.

    Now to me that would be a real cool momento to keep forever.

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