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Message:: [QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2507785, member: 76863"]I don't think its is that simple when comparing it directly to the SP dollar which he had.  That dollar was from the very early years of the US where as England had obviously been around for a long long time before this coin.  TDN who bought it and posts on the CU forums at one point laid out a case that that dollar may have been the first dollar every struck by the country, while it certainly wasn't a case where everyone just said yes I agree the fact that it is plausible does add to the story of that coin.  That coin is also not a proof making it's survival in that condition even more extraordinary.  I do think it is a bit of apples and oranges comparison between the two but those are just some of the distinguishing factors that would support the higher SP price over it just being two different buyer types.  Another to consider is quite simply the buyer base.  The US buying base is just so much larger overall than the British one just from a population standpoint that I would expect prices to be higher.  I agree some series are "overpriced" in terms of rarity, but really that is no different than anything else in life.  When a lot of people want something prices go up, when they don't they go down.[/QUOTE]