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Originally Posted by jody526  While still in high school, he claims to have appraised Cents for a coin dealer in his neck of the woods, and more interestingly, using a 70 point grading scale. That would be somewhere around 1910. | I have never heard of a numerical grading system being used that early. Literature that I have read concerning grading during that era only referenced descriptive terms used for grading (e.g., Good, Very Good, Fine, Very Fine, etc.)
I could be wrong but I thought Sheldon created his scale only to determine the value of Large Cents and later - in the late '60s or early '70s - others adopted his scale to be used in grading.
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