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<p>[QUOTE="iPen, post: 2353111, member: 69760"]One extreme example I mentioned earlier to draw out my point, was of a note with half it's design cut-off with a huge void on one side. To me, that's appealing. Compared with perfectly centered designs, I think that it could be more appealing than perfect ones, but it would likely depend on the design.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it's a modern note, I'd probably want the cut-off one because it would be so different from everything else that's more easily available. If it's a very old note that's very rare, I wouldn't mind if it was off-center, as a more centered note (all else constant) would cost more than I see value in it's perfect centering (I see it similar to MS-69 vs MS-70 graded coins and their prices - to me, there's very little marginal gain in utility for that slight increase in grade/centering but huge increase in premium.).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="iPen, post: 2353111, member: 69760"]One extreme example I mentioned earlier to draw out my point, was of a note with half it's design cut-off with a huge void on one side. To me, that's appealing. Compared with perfectly centered designs, I think that it could be more appealing than perfect ones, but it would likely depend on the design. If it's a modern note, I'd probably want the cut-off one because it would be so different from everything else that's more easily available. If it's a very old note that's very rare, I wouldn't mind if it was off-center, as a more centered note (all else constant) would cost more than I see value in it's perfect centering (I see it similar to MS-69 vs MS-70 graded coins and their prices - to me, there's very little marginal gain in utility for that slight increase in grade/centering but huge increase in premium.).[/QUOTE]
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