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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1393648, member: 19065&quot;]I&#039;m not a WG stamper, but I have entered plenty of SNs into the WG system for the fun of hopefully getting a tracked hit someday. I think it would be fun for a WGer to get an unstamped note, enter it and find it was already in the system.</p><p><br /></p><p>Only those pre-stamped WG notes that I have received in circulation, tracked and put back into circulation have ever returned me resultant hits. And not even all of those have come back with hits. My unstamped attempts have yet failed to return hits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peronally speaking, I don&#039;t collect WG notes as I am a paper money collector, maybe a &#039;purist&#039; we can say, who prefers problem free, high quality notes in my collection. I occassionally strap search when I can get new straps, but I prefer those notes which have not circulated and unless brand new notes, most of what I find in strap searching doesn&#039;t meet my critieria so I don&#039;t devote so much time to this activity. I know there are some who do and that&#039;s fine, collect what you want. Another reason for my preference is the value of a high quality note to that of its circulated cousins. I seek premium quality and feel that these, uncirculated ones, are the notes that best hold a premium if/when it ever comes time to sell them. Again, this is just my approach.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Now, I&#039;d like to propose the following...</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>• Any note, &quot;damaged&quot; by WG stamps becomes the collectible domain of the WG collectors. Purist paper money collectors shouldn&#039;t get bent out of shape over a class of &quot;created&quot; collectibles. There are more fish in the sea, this we know.</p><p><br /></p><p>• Any note &quot;damaged&quot; by WG stamps depopulates the amount of &#039;un-damaged&#039; notes thus increasing the potential value of the remaining examples prefered by paper money purists. That is, those who seek problem free, undamaged notes and assess values based on the quality of the note combined with its features and statistical data based on printages. With enormous printages of modern currency a depopulating force can only help the value increase on those un-stamped notes, be they circulated or not circulated, rarer or bearing desireable features.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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