Mike, I'd venture that a lot of times if a character set has no lower case, and the creator decides to use 70% scaled uppercase as a substitute for Small Caps, it's a cheat.
That sort of stuff might work for some headline and novelty fonts, but true Small Caps are smaller than the caps but also maintain the character stroke weight of the caps.
When I buy Expert sets, I always look at the SC and the OsF (OldStyle figures) members. If the Small Caps is a retread of the caps, I hesitate buying the set.
Heck, I know how to make fake Small Caps in Xara and with FontLab!
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