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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1457069, member: 19065"]You can read up more on the holders at the links below...</p><p><br /></p><p>While more rigid, BCW holders are not sealed in the protective manner of say <b><a href="http://www.pmgnotes.com/pmg_holder.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pmgnotes.com/pmg_holder.asp" rel="nofollow">the PMG Holder.</a></b></p><p><b><a href="http://www.pmgnotes.com/pmg_holder.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pmgnotes.com/pmg_holder.asp" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></b></p><p><b><a href="http://www.pcgscurrency.com/HolderSecurityDescription.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgscurrency.com/HolderSecurityDescription.html" rel="nofollow">PGCS Currency holders</a></b> may require different storage care, as they are not sealed like PMG holders, allowing the notes to breath suggesting that oxygen deprived notes may deteriorate on their own under sealed circumstances. The materials of the plastics is important as well for long term care. </p><p><br /></p><p>As long as the plastics you are using to store your notes in are in keeping with known archival materials and you can maintain your collection in relatively stable environmental conditions avoiding excessive heat, light and humidity, you can preserve your notes for a long life. This does not mean you need the subjective grading of a TPG to obtain such collection protection but their holders are an industry standard, are widely accepted and provide excellent protection, even in extreme cases like fires where notes have gone unscathed and reholdered after an incident. </p><p><br /></p><p>While the BCW holders may feel more rigid and give the allusion of greater security, how do they stack up to almost imperceptible things in the atmosphere: the air-quality, it's humidity, etc where you store these notes? Would smoke get into these BCW holders were there a fire? Even if inside a home safe or a bank's Safe Deposit Box? You have to assess all those factors, beyond the semi flexibility of archival slabs TPGs find to be the best protection. We can see that the TPGs have elected to use these less rigid holders and yet provide superior protection as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>Safety is often an illusion, e.g. more rigid feels more secure. That may or may not be true. The grade may be unimportant to you but the value may need to be determined for insurance protection were the notes needed to be assessed for replacement value. Many would turn to the most objective subjective source they can count on for a third party opinion, companies with a strong and long term reputation in this industry like PMG or PCGS, which an insuring company might accept their expert opinion on grade, and in turn how we may arrive at a value in the market place for replacement were these notes lost, stolen or damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are seeking value for insurance purposes since you indicated you are keeping these notes, then be sure that your insurance covers numismatic collectibles. Not all home owners policies cover the full collectible values of numismatics. The ANA has links to agents they recommend for special collection protection, but you should check with your own provider if you have any questions or assume your collection is fully covered. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the grade, I would agree wit Dr Kegg's thoughts, even though it's really hard to tell what these notes look like without seeing good scans of the notes made out of the holders. If you can scan the notes, take them out, place them on the scan bed, away from the edges of the scanner. Place a dark piece of paper behind the notes to help define all margins of the notes. Use a high 300 dpi resolution and save a file for upload online with the longest edge of the image file somewhere between 600 to 1200 pixels in length. That should afford us the best view of the notes to attempt to narrow the grades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1457069, member: 19065"]You can read up more on the holders at the links below... While more rigid, BCW holders are not sealed in the protective manner of say [B][URL="http://www.pmgnotes.com/pmg_holder.asp"]the PMG Holder. [/URL] [URL="http://www.pcgscurrency.com/HolderSecurityDescription.html"]PGCS Currency holders[/URL][/B] may require different storage care, as they are not sealed like PMG holders, allowing the notes to breath suggesting that oxygen deprived notes may deteriorate on their own under sealed circumstances. The materials of the plastics is important as well for long term care. As long as the plastics you are using to store your notes in are in keeping with known archival materials and you can maintain your collection in relatively stable environmental conditions avoiding excessive heat, light and humidity, you can preserve your notes for a long life. This does not mean you need the subjective grading of a TPG to obtain such collection protection but their holders are an industry standard, are widely accepted and provide excellent protection, even in extreme cases like fires where notes have gone unscathed and reholdered after an incident. While the BCW holders may feel more rigid and give the allusion of greater security, how do they stack up to almost imperceptible things in the atmosphere: the air-quality, it's humidity, etc where you store these notes? Would smoke get into these BCW holders were there a fire? Even if inside a home safe or a bank's Safe Deposit Box? You have to assess all those factors, beyond the semi flexibility of archival slabs TPGs find to be the best protection. We can see that the TPGs have elected to use these less rigid holders and yet provide superior protection as well. Safety is often an illusion, e.g. more rigid feels more secure. That may or may not be true. The grade may be unimportant to you but the value may need to be determined for insurance protection were the notes needed to be assessed for replacement value. Many would turn to the most objective subjective source they can count on for a third party opinion, companies with a strong and long term reputation in this industry like PMG or PCGS, which an insuring company might accept their expert opinion on grade, and in turn how we may arrive at a value in the market place for replacement were these notes lost, stolen or damaged. If you are seeking value for insurance purposes since you indicated you are keeping these notes, then be sure that your insurance covers numismatic collectibles. Not all home owners policies cover the full collectible values of numismatics. The ANA has links to agents they recommend for special collection protection, but you should check with your own provider if you have any questions or assume your collection is fully covered. As for the grade, I would agree wit Dr Kegg's thoughts, even though it's really hard to tell what these notes look like without seeing good scans of the notes made out of the holders. If you can scan the notes, take them out, place them on the scan bed, away from the edges of the scanner. Place a dark piece of paper behind the notes to help define all margins of the notes. Use a high 300 dpi resolution and save a file for upload online with the longest edge of the image file somewhere between 600 to 1200 pixels in length. That should afford us the best view of the notes to attempt to narrow the grades.[/QUOTE]
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