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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Notaphylic_C, post: 24653306, member: 130786&quot;]Those are tough questions to answer. My best guess for &quot;a&quot; is the more experienced collector (for example, one who knows that looking for &quot;Q&quot; paper in certain series is futile).&nbsp; b) I don&#039;t think the &quot;purist&quot; make up all collectors so I would say &quot;no.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When I wrote &quot;collectors&#039; note&quot; I simply meant a collector who knows a specific series. If he/she specifies, I would consider him/her a &quot;specialist&quot; and fairly advanced in the hobby. These folks set collector goals &amp; may have minimum requirements (but may also just settle to fill gaps in some areas).&nbsp; This is what they do best &amp; their priorities (typically) aren&#039;t about making a profit on a note (thinking of the hobby in terms of an &#039;investment&#039;). &quot;Eye appeal&quot; (whether the note fits in their set), meets personal standards, are the kinds of priorities these folk consider. </p><p><br /></p><p>Collectors come in all degrees of the spectrum, from &#039;dabbler&#039; to &#039;fully committed/informed&#039; &amp; somewhere in between. Our financial situation can also impose on our goals. People rarely fit nice, neat dichotomies (these guys are serious &amp; get a &quot;10&quot; while that group over there aren&#039;t &amp; only get a &quot;1&quot;). I&#039;m just making generalizations about something fairly complicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collectors who think of their notes purely as an &quot;investment&quot; are a relatively newer (more recent) breed, I believe (but I may be wrong there too). They typically aren&#039;t into completing sets but more into the technical grades (&amp; what they speculate they can do with the high grade TPG note). I&#039;ve actually seen a pretty advanced US collector show off his large sized notes that are highly graded on Youtube, touting that his &quot;Woodchoppers, etc&quot; will pay off in the future.&nbsp; I tend to believe he&#039;s probably correct provided he sells his notes during an up cycle. I&#039;ve been collecting for 47 years &amp; consider this a fairly new trend (seeing so many newbies ask what current banknotes are worth, etc).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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