Brasher Doubloon on Display at the NMS - larger image added

Swampboy · February 5, 2015 1:15PM

Well make my day.

I just read on the ANA blog that the Brasher Doubloon will be on display at the National Money Show March 5-7 in Portland.

Lakesammman · February 5, 2015 2:39PM

Thanks for the news. Looking forward to that show - nice when it's in the neighborhood.

One of my favorite coin show memories was the '98 ANA in Portland.

Went with my son who was 13 - snuck in a little golf.

I eagled one of the par 4's and w/o a beat he said, "Dad, it's a Mastercard moment!".

ricko · February 5, 2015 10:34PM

That is a beautiful piece of gold.... Cheers, RickO

DIMEMAN · February 5, 2015 10:52PM

Would love to have that coin.......so I could sell it and but a lot of dimes and other things.

CaptHenway · February 5, 2015 11:34PM

Which specimen is this?

Swampboy · February 5, 2015 11:44PM

<< <i>Which specimen is this? >>

from the blog Cap'n

THE BRASHER DOUBLOON PEDIGREE

Perschke Specimen, MS63 NGC • Robert Gilmor, Jr. in the 1830s • Gilmor family • Lyman Low • Possibly John T. Raymond • John T. Raymond Collection (Lyman Low, 6/1887), lot 524, bought in by Low • Purchased privately by Harold P. Newlin • Robert Coulton Davis • R.C. Davis Collection (New York Coin & Stamp Co., 1/1890), lot 2342

• John G. Mills, privately • James Ten Eyck Collection (B. Max Mehl, 5/1922), lot 374, realized $3,000 • Virgil Brand (Brand Journal ID number 120069) • Horace Brand • Jack Friedberg • Auction ’79 (RARCOA, 7/1979), lot 1433, realized $430,000 to Walter Perschke • Sold most recently (Heritage, 1/14) for $4,582,500

The composition is interesting, as it varies from the earlier Spanish doubloons, which were approximately 90 percent gold, 8 percent silver, and 2 percent copper. Later U.S. gold coins reversed this ratio of silver to copper, keeping the gold at 90 percent. This indicates that Brasher assayed and refined the gold himself, rather than just melting a cache of older Latin American gold pieces. The different alloy for federal gold coinage proves that the doubloons were not fantasy pieces, struck at a later date from melted down U.S. coinage.

The 1787 Brasher Doubloon will be in the Museum Showcase at the National Money Show in Portland. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5, and Friday, March 6; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 7. ANA members are admitted free. For more information, go to NationalMoneyShow.com.

EagleEye · February 6, 2015 12:06AM

Link to the ANA

Swampboy · February 6, 2015 12:45AM

<< <i>Link to the ANA >>

CaptHenway · February 6, 2015 1:01AM

Ah, yes. The AU.

dbldie55 · February 6, 2015 1:02AM

<< <i>Ah, yes. The AU. >>

You know what they say: One mans AU is another mans .....

(or something like that)

CaptHenway · February 6, 2015 1:48AM

Well, Walter Perschke owned the coin when I worked for him, and he did hire me to start a grading service for him that never got off the ground.........

Of course, I realize that unfortunately the grading standards of 1984 have nothing to do with the grading standards of 2015.