Editorial policy and valuation

What this site is

Notofilia publishes records of physical objects in a private collection: banknotes, coins, tickets, and related paper. Each banknote or certified coin is a unique object; the serial (or certificate number) is its identity. We are not an auction house, a dealer, or an appraiser.

The founder, Yezid Acosta, signs the records and guides. When an editorial article has a reviewer, the name appears on the page. Population figures, prices, or provenance details that are not in a cited source are omitted.

Grading standards

The published grade is the one on the holder or label (PMG, PCGS Banknote, NGC, or another named service). We do not reinterpret a slabbed grade. If the piece is not certified, condition is described in catalogue language (for example “uncirculated” or “details”) without inventing a Sheldon number.

EPQ, PPQ, Star, or Details designations are copied from the label. A population report is cited only when the service publishes it for that certificate; if there is no figure, none is estimated. For house vocabulary see the PMG/PCGS and Pick glossary terms, and the grading-companies guide.

Image policy

Collection photographs are Notofilia’s. The obverse on the record is the priority image; the reverse and enlarged views load later. Card crops use the same master through the site’s image transformer.

Third-party auction or archive images (for example Heritage) are comparables, not holdings: they are not imported as records and realized prices are not republished. Credit, the license for collection photos, and the page to request permission appear in each record’s JSON-LD and on Contact.

Sources

Colombian records for 1923–2019 cite González White (7th ed., 2019) by BG# when it applies, and Banco de la República production tables when the figure is a print run — a Pick-level tirada is not invented from a denomination-year total. Paper before 1923 cites Hernández. Pick, The Banknote Book, and Numista are type concordances, not an inventory.

Guides and news distinguish a confirmed hammer price from an asking price. If there is no public source, the figure is not published. Catalogue or serial corrections are noted on the existing record; two objects are not merged because they share Pick and date.

How value is discussed (no prices)

Notofilia does not publish price lists, insurance estimates, or “what a serial is worth.” A Colombian note is discussed by type, relative rarity, documented condition, certified population when it exists, and market context (where pieces sell: houses, fairs, private sales) — never with an invented figure.

The guide “How Colombian banknotes are valued” develops that method. The fancy-serial checker names an example only when the serial matches a published object.

Corrections

If you find an error of serial, attribution, image, or translation, write through Contact with the error reason. We correct the existing record; we do not create a second record for the same object. Search pages are not indexed; the catalogue, glossary, and guides are.