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Pillar of the Community
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Quote: Personally I think the fewer grading companies the better. Get everything under 1 roof with 1 standard. Then there would be a monopoly and it would be much worse, since there would be no competition. Competition keeps people more honest.
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Quote: Honestly I do wish they would either drop the label all together, or work something out with the mint where the first 10-15 percent of the mintage could be set aside and first strike would actually mean first strike. Well, if no one buys them, then they wouldn't issue those types of labels. It is all based upon demand. If there is no demand, the product will go away on its own.
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Rest in Peace
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I don't recall it being mentioned even during SQ production. You could order sets of silver proof quarters fairly early in the year, yet the issues came out around 10 weeks apart.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Quote: No practical way to do this, when some issues are all struck before initial release.
Itd have challenges but often times you can buy these coins on sites before the Mint officially releases them or graded ones on the day of that were clearly sent in before. If the mint were to just separate out the first lot and keep it separate from the rest itd be easy to keep track of. But quinn makes a great point. You cant get better than a 70 so the coin itself wont be any better, just something else to make your collection unique I guess
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New Member
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First Strike or Early Release designations; what impact on the value of a coin? Or is this just marketing to boost $$$?
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Pillar of the Community
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Well a bit of faulty data in the reply..from the PCGS POP report (not the Registry link provided) the were the following numbers of MS70 2005 bullion ASE's graded by PCGS: 150...MS70 non-FS 447...MS70 FS 555...MS70 FS Mercanti Signature ...and.. Quote: I don't see why First Strike should matter, since you can't get better than MS-70, it shouldn't add any extra value to the coin. It really doesn't matter what you (or I) "think". Beliefs shouldn't trump facts and the facts are that FS (or ER) labels DO sell for more than non-FS coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Quote:Well a bit of faulty data in the reply..from the PCGS POP report (not the Registry link provided) the were the following numbers of MS70 2005 bullion ASE's graded by PCGS: 150...MS70 non-FS 447...MS70 FS 555...MS70 FS Mercanti Signature Interesting figures considering the FS designation didn't start until 2005 and the Mercanti signature until much more recently yet it has the highest population.
Edited by Conder101 07/22/2014 3:16 pm
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New Member
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A lot of people put together first strike sets would be my guess.
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Pillar of the Community
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Quote: Interesting figures considering the FS designation didn't start until 2005 and the Mercanti signature until much more recently yet it has the highest population. Just using the PCGS POP reports.... Quote: 519409 1986 $1 Silver Eagle Mercanti Signature MS + 290 Quote: 89816 1988 $1 Silver Eagle First Strike MS + 93
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Pillar of the Community
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the numbers are wrong on this coin..
PCGS says 447 ms70 with FS label and 1152 total with MS70 grades...
pcgs says 800.00 for an ms70, 49.00 for an ms69..... buy the coin not the label... I can't tell the difference between a 69 and 70.
and they did 2800+ PR 70's
Edited by stampvirgin 07/22/2014 5:11 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Quote: the numbers are wrong on this coin..
PCGS says 447 ms70 with FS label and 1152 total with MS70 grades. Yup...that was mentioned a few posts above yours
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