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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2103402, member: 71234&quot;]<i>I don&#039;t feel this is a fine note, so how do you know ?</i></p><p><br /></p><p>In coin and banknote language &#039;Fine&#039; means &#039;Just about acceptable&#039;, and &#039;good&#039; means &#039;Horrible&#039;</p><p>I&#039;d call your notes &#039;Very Fine&#039; which really means &#039; Quite Decent&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The wording&nbsp; dates back to the 18th C. when ancient coins were the focus of coin collecting, and the standards were really applicable to coins in general a couple of thousand years old that had had a tough life. </p><p><br /></p><p>A &#039;fine&#039; Roman or Greek coin really would have been a fine find. </p><p><br /></p><p>With&nbsp; the popularity of collection more modern coins in the 19th and 20th centuries more use was made of the higher grades, that for classical era coins would have been ultra rare, leading to congestion at the top of the heap and to the absurd situation today where the finest examples are divided into more and more microgrades, and the ultimate absurdity of graders grading other graders work.</p><p><br /></p><p>How you&#039;d know grade for a banknote is pretty easy, a perfect note is 100%, and then you&nbsp; deduct points for wear to edges and corners, folds, dirt, marks, and crispness to come to a lower number which is the grade of the note.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can find banknote grading guides online. The US may not use the 100 start point,&nbsp; but the principle is pretty simple. Your notes look &#039;Quite Decent&#039; to me and a fair buy at the price you paid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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