Don't give me that crap. Ebay Completed Sales are public record. Of the last 200 raw 1879-P's sold on Ebay, only three sold for more than yours, and all three of them were plainly Mint State. 101 of that 200 sold for less than $30. You're digging yourself into a hole now.
Oops typo. P or S, it doesn't really matter in the context of this convo though. Funny nobody caught it including myself until now. That says it all right there
Why? The numbers are there, and they're plain. It's not hard to list Completed Sales for a specific date/mint and then count what you see. I've been doing it on Ebay since 1999, and stopped getting things wrong there a long time ago. I *would* like to know how you're getting your numbers, though. Are you just looking at all ended auctions, sold or not?