gpnyc Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 Just a warning to large size note collectors: Be very careful when buying raw notes as they may not be what they seem. PMG has a very useful tool which can be used to search for a note by serial number.... USE IT. There's an 1896 Educational $5 listed on eBay right now as AU. Looks AU in the images, but it was cut out of a PMG VF-30 holder. Someone may get hosed on this one. Don't let it be you. Not an isolated incident either. I checked one more he has listed (1899 $5 Chief) which was in a PMG Net 25 holder (retouched). Note is now raw with no problems mentioned. I'm sure there are others but haven't gone through all his listings. PS: if you don't have the Gengerke census of large size notes... buy one. Consider it cheap insurance against this sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
