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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 2260088, member: 41863&quot;]I appreciate the advice and response. I don&#039;t collect paper money at all unless it says or has something to do with New Bern NC so I don&#039;t have the proper knowledge or education to handle these things. That&#039;s why I turn here. </p><p><br /></p><p>My mind just has a hard time understanding why an easily identifiable note such as that $50 or that Counterfeit couldn&#039;t be removed and then again proven where it came from by auction archives and keeping the label after it was removed. My little brain says there was a LLOOOOONNNNGG time between the 1800s when these were printed and generations before us had very little difficulty in proving these types things. It also is telling me that if marketed correctly the new buyer probably wouldn&#039;t care that much about the provenance, I didn&#039;t really. </p><p>ANY $50 note in that condition I would&#039;ve bid the same just to own it, as I&#039;m sure anyone interested in New Bern notes would have done due to emotional attachment. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also don&#039;t understand the tape thing either. My mind says it&#039;s already damaged and can&#039;t get worse. It&#039;ll never grade clean no matter what, and I would like to stop a full on tear at this point to PREVENT it from becoming like the only other known specimen. I also don&#039;t put much stock in what folks did in the past. You saying &#039;collectors before you left it alone&#039; doesn&#039;t really say much because no one knows where it came from or who had it and where. Maybe they just didn&#039;t care? Maybe they didn&#039;t know the relevance? Not all previous owners are savvy collectors, and also remember not that long ago it was standard procedure to take your coins and such home and clean them vigorously. </p><p><br /></p><p>By no means am I disregarding your advice, my logical path just needs correcting and so far the reasons, (not outcome), haven&#039;t been thoroughly satisfied. Meaning I trust your advice to leave these things alone, but the why just hasn&#039;t sunk in, at least with the responses I&#039;ve been given.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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