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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2097194, member: 19463&quot;]I greatly admire the concept for relating the grades and prices as originated by Dr. Sheldon but time and the market made his numbers obsolete.&nbsp; He realized the strangeness of paying more than a cent for a cent and the hobby had its disagreements even in his day.&nbsp; He did not call his book &#039;Penny Whimsy&#039; for nothing.&nbsp; It turned out that everything Shelton touched turned out to be a victim of time and changing definitions of correctness.&nbsp; The coin grading system turned out to be his most long lasting work.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herbert_Sheldon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herbert_Sheldon" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herbert_Sheldon</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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