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Message:: [QUOTE="SteveInTampa, post: 1463552, member: 27107"]Some collectors are willing to purchase notes with problems, tears, stains, missing pieces, etc. and some will pass and wait to find problem free notes. The note displayed has clean paper, and good colors and was sold way below market value for an XF example, because of it's problems. Looks like you paid less than 50% of what the note would have cost without the problems. I searched the Heritage Archives and found many Fr.273 notes . An XF note with original paper quality (PPQ,EPQ, OPQ) sold for over $1,300 and a similar XF note with an Apparent designation (edge split and tear) sold for just over $800. Way back when I started collecting US paper currency it was suggested to me; If you find a note and describe it with BUT ......I really like this "Chief" note, but it's missing pieces, or This is a really good deal on this "Bison" note, but it's faded and has an edge split, then stop right there and try to find an example that is problem free. If the note is attractive to your eyes, with no buts needed, then in some distant year when the time comes to sell it, the note will be attractive to the eyes of the other buyer too, an important aspect.[/QUOTE]