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<p>[QUOTE="halfcent1793, post: 4502935, member: 86853"]There have been some recent comments on this forum about "precision grading," i.e., numerical grading. I would say that precision grading is hype, pure and simple. There is no such thing in the real world. Grading is subjective and has never been otherwise. </p><p><br /></p><p>We have numerical grading because Sheldon was obsessed with quantitation. He also promoted the idea that your body proportions (quantitative) predicted your behavior. I refer to his <i>Atlas of Men</i>, 1954, Harper & Brothers, NY. and <i>The Varieties of Temperament</i>, 1942, Harper & Brothers, NY. HOWEVER, his scale was never intended as a grading scale. It was a pricing scale for 1794 large cents. It failed to have predictive value as a pricing scale, but copper collectors still use it as a shorthand; some think it easier to say 20 than VF or 40 than XF.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers, particularly those who dealt in Morgan dollars, saw it as a way to make more money by increasing the number of grades and giving the false impression that grading was somehow precise and quantitative. </p><p><br /></p><p>Discuss.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="halfcent1793, post: 4502935, member: 86853"]There have been some recent comments on this forum about "precision grading," i.e., numerical grading. I would say that precision grading is hype, pure and simple. There is no such thing in the real world. Grading is subjective and has never been otherwise. We have numerical grading because Sheldon was obsessed with quantitation. He also promoted the idea that your body proportions (quantitative) predicted your behavior. I refer to his [I]Atlas of Men[/I], 1954, Harper & Brothers, NY. and [I]The Varieties of Temperament[/I], 1942, Harper & Brothers, NY. HOWEVER, his scale was never intended as a grading scale. It was a pricing scale for 1794 large cents. It failed to have predictive value as a pricing scale, but copper collectors still use it as a shorthand; some think it easier to say 20 than VF or 40 than XF. Dealers, particularly those who dealt in Morgan dollars, saw it as a way to make more money by increasing the number of grades and giving the false impression that grading was somehow precise and quantitative. Discuss.[/QUOTE]
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