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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3057595, member: 112"]LDS vs EDS - How do you tell? I cannot speak to the specific coin in question as to why the TPG would recognize one die state as being a given variety and not another die state. But in general, determining EDS, MDS, and LDS from each other is fairly simple. All you have to do is learn to recognize the different, diagnostics, the different stages of die wear for a given coin type. They can be different from type to the next, but they are all fairly similar in that the legends and numerals often become a bit flatter and broader, the details of the devices become less and less distinct, and wear lines caused by metal flow across the dies become more and more distinct as die wear increases. As I said, these are generalities. But with each coin type, and often each die marriage, specific diagnostics are known and can be pointed out on each coin in question. Learning and getting to know these specific diagnostics so that they can be readily recognized is the hard part, and that is where specific variety attribution comes into play. But determining the die state is the easy part which almost anyone can learn by spending just a short amount of time becoming familiar with the coin type, or specific coin issue in question.[/QUOTE]