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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1477653, member: 19065&quot;]&quot;Hung up&quot;? No sir. I&#039;m patiently helping you understand and come up to speed on the <i>very real</i>&nbsp; threat and effect of environmental humidity on all paper, but&nbsp; particular to this thread, on paper money. I have underscored that there&nbsp; is also an accepted level of natural levels of humidity in notes and&nbsp; that it does not effect grading, one which I even agree with TPGs is&nbsp; acceptable and natural, but also that there is a point at which&nbsp; carelessness in storing currency may lead to potentially damaging&nbsp; results to the note over time.&nbsp; As I have been saying, the unsealed, &quot;<i>breathable</i>&quot;&nbsp; PCGS currency holder may not be the best option for controlling this&nbsp; risk factor when it comes to note preservation and some notes may even&nbsp; worsen over time even because of this, even when residing inside such an&nbsp; unsealed holder. I am saying that some notes may be original and have&nbsp; laid flat or flatter at the time of encapsulation, but in a breathable&nbsp; holder, begin to retain moisture absorbed from the environment and&nbsp; developing unappealing visual form, within a holder, post encapsulation,&nbsp; which may be irreversible and damaging to the paper.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may&nbsp; remain as thick as you like refusing to understand the dynamic of&nbsp; humidity&#039;s effect on paper and too big to reverse your thinking and&nbsp; initial erroneous comment citing factors for what causes paper to appear&nbsp; wavy. So since you refuse to take someone&#039;s reasoned and <i>experienced</i>&nbsp; words talking about this, please take the time to read just a sliver of&nbsp; what&#039;s available online, in books and practiced in most all library and&nbsp; museum conservation departments, this site regarding paper preservation&nbsp; and techniques that exist for monitoring and preventing damage <i>from the environment</i>&nbsp; on paper objects. There are a number of topics at this link that&nbsp; address what I have been referring to, conveniently published for your&nbsp; edification: <a href="http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets.list.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets.list.php" rel="nofollow">Northeast Document Conservation Cente</a>r. </p><p><br /></p><p>Parts&nbsp; 2 and 4 should be particularly noted in reference to this discussion.&nbsp; While many will think the level discussed in the pages of this site&nbsp; excessive and only the realm of major public and private institutions&nbsp; and their processes, I feel it is collectors serious duty to attempt to&nbsp; implement as closely as possible the same care of their collections and&nbsp; that we do all we can to understand these factors as we steward our&nbsp; collections until we pass them on, and so that we may identify factors&nbsp; that help us protect the value of collections as well as not waste money&nbsp; adding to collections where potential risk factors are evident as we&nbsp; acquire pieces for our collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you expect others to accept&nbsp; your relatively junior comments about matters related to currency&nbsp; collecting then others will expect the same from you when they step in&nbsp; to clarify something you misspoke about and which had the effect of&nbsp; misleading others who outright agreed with you about something they&nbsp; couldn&#039;t even explain to defend themselves. Likewise, you ought to&nbsp; rethink calling people a <i>jerk</i> for challenging or clarifying information in your posts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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