Brasher Doubloons in Heritage Auction

tradedollarnut

Punch on Breast

Punch on Wing


General Info on the Doubloons

kieferscoins

The punch on the wing NGC slab has a cool serial number: 444444-001.

Cameron Kiefer

JadeRareCoin

Oh man..........those are so cool! They are the ultimate Colonial coin, imho.

Weiss

Oh My God.

boiler78

Daaaammmmmnnnn those are cool! Can anybody provide more info on the Gold Rush collection??

MrEureka

Can anybody provide more info on the Gold Rush collection??

gold rush gallery

MrEureka

The punch on the wing NGC slab has a cool serial number: 444444-001

Yeah, but too bad it's not in a Regency sample slab. Then it would really be a cool coin!

rainbowroosie

WOOOOOOW!

mrearlygold

Wow!


Tom

mgoodm3

Very cool.

foodude

These are very cool. I may need to reevaluate my auction fund allotment

roadrunner

How much of a premium to melt do these gold coins bring?

roadrunner

Gemini

Back in 1979 I didn't have enough money to bid on these.......funny how some things never change.........

ColonialCoinUnion

I just bumped into these while searching the auction preview section of Heritage's site -

I'll be bidding.

morgannut2

Brasher Doubloons are interesting but look at the HUNDREDS of OTHER rare, I mean really rare, for the series coins EXPLODING on the market all at once at the same time in Heritage's Fun Sale. I don't know how to interpret this except as the sign of a final top for this coin market. So much really rare material, just below the trophy coin/millionaire level, is difficult for the middle class/professional groups to absorb so quickly: absent a lot of divorces of course!!

GOLDSAINT

TTT

morgannut2

Well I was sure wrong that all this rare material couldn't be absorbed my the market!! These Brashers are already into

the 1804 Dollar price area, but in many ways are so much more beautiful. I'll bet we are looking at the high side of the

1804 $1 prices here and all of these bids are just jockeying for position, before the real live bidding starts.

dorkkarl

i'd take a brasher doubloon over a 1804 silver dollar any day any time

K S

Bear

Could I have one of each please?

morgannut2

But we're collectors. I'm wondering how more investment oriented type bidders with large portfolios of "classic rarities"

will view the values of these currently-- and those expected in the future. After all the most recent high bidders/buyers of

1885 Proof Trade Dollar (>1m.) and 1913 Nickel (at 3m.) SAID the buys were for "investment". Isn't the 1804 more famous

as well as most cases in Mint State? I'm still guessing the top Brasher will exeed the bid of all but the top 1804 $1.

GOLDSAINT

I don’t know Karl; these are some pretty UGLY coins! The eagle looks like something out of a bad German Hitler movie; the work is very sloppy considering how easy it is to work in Gold. In general these coins are just off centered with mushy detail. I think this was what was called a “bubba deal” back in the old days. Or perhaps they referred to it as being neighborly.

“Ephraim Brasher (pronounced Bray-zher) lived just a few feet from President Washington in New York. Washington resided at 3 Cherry Street and Brasher lived next door at 1 Cherry Street. Some sources give the address of Brasher as 5 Cherry Street.”


At any rate what is everyone’s price guesstimate?

RYK

Here's a question...

Not that I would ever try to do so...but, would Heritage's online auction even allow me to bid on it? Is there some prequalification required that is built into the software such that my bid would not be accected? And if it would allow me to bid on it, how quickly would I receive a call from one of the principals asking me to guarantee my bid? (I'm thinking 10 nanoseconds)

Just some silly musings from a guy who is WAY out of his league.

morgannut2

For the top Brasher (and >$ than the 1913 Nickel)--- $3,650,000. Lima at $910,000. 1886O MS64DPL Morgan--$38,000!!

(opps-nobody cares about the neat Morgan)

lloydmincy

RYK:

Heritage will just take your bid, assuming you are not fooling around, and you are serious. Not to fluff, but I have bid high 6 figure, and never got a call. They know me I guess, but STILL. Odds are, who ever bids on the biggies, know what they are doing. Very rare that someone bidding $1,000,000 for a coin want the trouble by pranking!!!!

The MAJOR wealthy collectors are not overly worried about their price fluctuations. Believe me. It would be a blip on there finance allocation screen.

----Lloyd

Nic

I'd rather have one of the two gem 1794 $'s . K

tradedollarnut

Colonials are not my cup of tea, so I hesitate to enter a guess. I do know that coins are hitting the million dollar mark now like flies swooping on a sweetpie.... Norweb 1885 trade dollar, the 1866 No Motto seated dollar, soon the 1894-S dime. So these seem like they would be in good company.

Years ago they were one of the greatest of coins in American Numismatics. I think they've been overshadowed a bit because they haven't been on the market for so long. Whether their luster can be revived remains to be seen....

GOLDSAINT

(opps-nobody cares about the neat Morgan)

morgannut2

This is not so, in fact I think many of us are watching to see what prices many of the other rarities bring. I have several Barbers on my Heritage watch list just to watch the prices go, and I am not a Barber collector.
Perhaps someone will post a thread later on the prices realized for many of the better coins in this show.

I would really loved to have gone to this show to watch history in the making, as many pieces of our American history are sold. Perhaps we can rely on the board members that were fortunate enough to attend to give us all a play by play of the action, and pictures would be nice, if anyone is there with their camera. How about a picture of the faces of the losing bidders on these Doubloons? Once these babies are gone we may never see them sell again in our life time.

morgannut2

Thanks Goldsaint: There are some real rarities (in their respective series) that have all at once come on the market. The

Brasher Doubloons will get all the press, but some of these other coins are just astonishing. It is very interesting

how all the modern vs. classic Registry impact arguements suddenly go quiet here in awe--Everyone knows top

coins when they see them---and they don't need a high PCGS "number" to indicate the important ones!!