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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1652952, member: 112&quot;]Yes, of course they can. They are in fact.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Correct. But - that is assuming that all other grading criteria are equal on each one. If however the other grading criteria on the EDS coin is lesser than that on the LDS coin (or MDS), then the LDS coin is going to grade higher than the EDS coin will.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a little of both. But it&#039;s not really that we compare to each other, but rather that we compare a given coin to what it should look like if it were as close to perfect as it could be.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It begins the instant the coin leaves the dies. Those contact marks that a coin gets when it falls from the dies and into the hopper below, those contact marks count against the grade. As do any other marks, scratches, scuffs, dings, damage, or anything else that happens to the coin once it has left the dies.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is correct. And that, strike quality, is one of the main differences between technical grading and market grading. Two more differences are quality of luster and eye appeal. All 3 of those things are used in market grading, but not in technical grading.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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