Releasing a coin on the darknet and mining it for 2 years where a few people know about it hardly counts...
It most definatly counts. It is the true definition of anonymous and at this point the most anonymous anyone can get.
So perhaps we should asterisk our title and say we were the first anonymous coin that wasn't mined extensively by small groups of people in the know for two years time. That could work, I guess.
You could argue that there were issues with Dark's launch, but at the same time, it was at least public to a pretty wide userbase, let alone continues to be referenced in the how the coin started thread on the official forums.
Even bitcoin wasnt much known than a small group in early days but it doesnt mean litecoin will say its the first crypto currency