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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zaneman, post: 224145, member: 3970&quot;]Unless I am missing something, the scratches (mostly on the obverse I presume, as I see a couple faint scratches there) you see are considered to relatively minor by market standards. The strike and luster on 1938-d&#039;s tends to be extraordinarily strong, and if anything it is kind of rare to see one graded anything but an ms-66. </p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I presume the technical grade would be lower, but regrettably, my grading standards tend to stem solely from my experience working at a grading company. I have been trying to work on this though, as I think I could benefit from understanding the difference between the two. </p><p><br /></p><p>I may be wrong, but it seems as if technical grading always considers luster, strike, marks etc. regardless of the coin. And to me that makes more sense than market grading, which tends to evaluate each series, and sometimes even each date on an as-is basis so to speak. What might be an ms-62 for one date, might be an ms-65 for another according to &quot;market standards&quot;.&nbsp; I put that in quotes, as I feel that grading companies unfortunately decide what is market acceptable more so than the actual market does. I apologize for the tangent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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