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Message:: [QUOTE="Billy Kingsley, post: 910626, member: 19456"]I just really got into world notes last year. I have only one criteria for adding to my collection: Do I like the note? That is all that matters to me! If I like it, and I can afford it (really easy with most world notes...a big bonus for me!) I will bring it home.  The one thing I really don't like on a note is staining. I passed on a few notes that I would have purchased otherwise if they did not have stains on them. I don't mind wear at all, circulated notes have a story to tell, like I related on the coin section here yesterday, I collect for history and the circulated notes MADE the history.  With world notes you can get a lot of them for very low prices, especially compared to US notes of the same time. At my to date only coin show I found a dealer selling uncirculated notes for $1. And not just modern stuff, stuff back into the 40s! For a dollar! Another dealer was selling circulated stuff for 2 for a dollar. You can build a very large collection that way, and learn about a whole host of areas.  I currently have 93 world notes in my collection, from 40 different countries. I have spent less than $50 for the entire collection. One of the notes cost me $20, so if it wasn't for that one note, my oldest from 1862, the collection total would have been less than $25! (I inherited some and some were gifts) Really, there is no wrong way to do it.[/QUOTE]