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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2445445, member: 78153&quot;]Correct, except maybe at nominal prices or discounts of 99%+ to current market value for the most expensive coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This might be breaking news and a shock to most US collectors, but most foreign collectors have never heard of most US coins, whether they are rare or famous or not.&nbsp; This is no different than if I were to name any number of the greatest foreign rarities which most on this forum and in the general US collector population also don&#039;t know and don&#039;t care about either.&nbsp; Foreign collectors may know or assume that a rare or scarce date for a denomination currently issued exists but only because they assume it was struck for commerce in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>As one example, the South African collectors I know have heard of the 1804 dollar and 1913 Liberty Head nickel.&nbsp; They may also know of &quot;key&quot; dates like the 1909-S VDB cent.&nbsp; A much lower number do or might know about coins like the 1787 Brasher Doubloon or 1794 dollar but only because of recent sales and they just happened to see it on the internet.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, they haven&#039;t heard of coins like the 1849 proof double eagle in the Smithsonian collection and don&#039;t remotely hold any of these coins in remotely the same regard as US collectors do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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