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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;muhfff, post: 24591800, member: 71559&quot;]Great answers! Thanks everybody!</p><p>Looking entire note is definitely good advice. When it comes to coins, I&#039;ve always followed the principle, that buy the coin not the holder. I&#039;m pretty sure it is good strategy in paper money collecting also.</p><p>And that actually brings up few more questions. </p><p><br /></p><p>If the note is packed in the plastic (it doesn&#039;t even have to be TPG plastic, just some random plastic holder for &quot;raw&quot; note), can you evaluate the quality of the paper? It kinda looks to me, that it always requires more &quot;touch and feel&quot; approach, and if the note is &quot;raw&quot;, it should be taken out of the &quot;container&quot; to evaluate the paper quality. Right?</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;m also pretty sure, that I cannot buy all the notes in print state condition (some notes even doesn&#039;t exist in that condition anymore), if I&#039;m lucky, I can get some of these in NET grade condition or just without EPQ/PPQ/xPQ designation. Again, maybe stupid question, but which one are &quot;better&quot; - notes with pin holes vs notes with minor tears vs notes with minor stains and so on. </p><p>In case of coins it is easy for me, light hairlines are always better than polishing or removed mount or drilled hole, but what about paper money? Pin holes looks to be &quot;smallest&quot; problem (literally), but at the same time very-very light stain maybe even unnoticeable...</p><p>So, in short, in case of the same grade, which &quot;problem&quot; is preferable and which one should be avoided like a plague? Or should it be always taken case by case (looking entire note and deciding based on that)?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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