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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cannoncoins, post: 1744009, member: 28659&quot;]<font face="Calibri"> Thanks for the historical commentary, Vavet!&nbsp; I actually didn&#039;t see this article just now, but just commented on another thread here about technical grading vs market grading that it&#039;s no mistake that the <i>original intent </i>of the scale was as a standardized method for calculating the <i>value&nbsp; </i>of&nbsp; large cents via multiplication.&nbsp; </font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"></font>&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="Calibri"> The system broke down, of course, because&nbsp; markets change and there are certain coins where the difference between&nbsp; EF and MS is much larger than for others; Sheldon liked to classify&nbsp; things, and like his attempt to classify humans into categories of&nbsp; endomorphs, mesomorphs, and ectomorphs based on their physical&nbsp; characteristics (with particular intelligence levels and other traits&nbsp; associated with each category) trying to make predictions based on mass&nbsp; groupings of things with widely varied origins tends to fall apart.</font>&nbsp; You can read more about his physiological/psychological research here: <a href="http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/crime_motivation/6.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/crime_motivation/6.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/crime_motivation/6.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also, as Vavet alludes with his comment <i>&quot;if not for his honesty,&quot;</i> Sheldon was no superhero- he has since been discovered/accused of stealing from the American Numismatic Society&#039;s collection of large cents.&nbsp; <a href="http://ansmagazine.com/Summer04/Cabinet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ansmagazine.com/Summer04/Cabinet" rel="nofollow">http://ansmagazine.com/Summer04/Cabinet</a>.&nbsp; An interesting guy, to say the least!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<font face="Calibri">---</font></p><p>&nbsp; <font face="Calibri">&quot;Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.&quot;</font></p><p>&nbsp; <font face="Calibri"><a href="http://myworld.ebay.com/cannoncoins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://myworld.ebay.com/cannoncoins" rel="nofollow">http://myworld.ebay.com/cannoncoins</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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