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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7927924, member: 101855"]Sheldon developed this scale as a quick way to update values over time. Instead of having columns and rows of numbers, you simply got updated Basal Values and calculated market prices from there. It would have been a great system if it had worked, but it didn’t. </p><p><br /></p><p>So far the scale goes, it has had so much usage that it has become the standard. Those who are obsessed with the use of the base 10, have asked for a 100 point scale. I am sure that the grading companies would like that because it would give them s lot more business, but the blowback from those suggests has been fierce. </p><p><br /></p><p>The system is quite workable once you learn it. We don’t need any extra grading points because the ones we have create enough controversies. Arguing over 11 Mint State or Proof grading number is quite enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7927924, member: 101855"]Sheldon developed this scale as a quick way to update values over time. Instead of having columns and rows of numbers, you simply got updated Basal Values and calculated market prices from there. It would have been a great system if it had worked, but it didn’t. So far the scale goes, it has had so much usage that it has become the standard. Those who are obsessed with the use of the base 10, have asked for a 100 point scale. I am sure that the grading companies would like that because it would give them s lot more business, but the blowback from those suggests has been fierce. The system is quite workable once you learn it. We don’t need any extra grading points because the ones we have create enough controversies. Arguing over 11 Mint State or Proof grading number is quite enough.[/QUOTE]
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