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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;halfcent1793, post: 2805460, member: 86853&quot;]I&#039;m not equating Sheldon with Hitler. </p><p><br /></p><p>He did write a very good book about large cents, and it was instrumental in building up the field, though large cents had already been studied for nearly 100 years when he wrote it. They&#039;re still getting a lot of attention. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is not in no way fault the ANA adapted his pricing scale for large cents as a grading scale for every US coin. That was driven by greed and happened independently of Sheldon about the time he died. Whatever outrage I have about this is towards those who misappropriated his scale for grading all US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, he misused quantitative science in both numismatics and psychology. His pricing scale was a pseudoscience as was his somatotype research. Since both projects were wrong in the same way, I think it is completely legitimate to discuss them together.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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