Options
Brasher Doubloons...
Artist
Posts: 2,012 ✭✭✭
"NOVA*EBORACA*COLUMBIA" "EXCELSIOR"
This is what is written on the Brasher Doubloon...
anyone know what it means??
I am really curious...
This is what is written on the Brasher Doubloon...
anyone know what it means??
I am really curious...
0
Comments
Eboraca = Latinate rendering of "York," after Eboracum, the Roman name of the settlement that became York, England
Columbia = equivalent to America.
Excelsior = Ever Upward, the state motto of New York
So, New York in America, Ever Upward.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
I'll bet there is no question he cannot answer.
Ask me why anyone would ever pay 5 figures for a Jefferson nickel and I'll I can offer is a blank stare.
Aside from that, I'm game. I can at lease make something up and have it sound persuasive.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
How would you know? It's not like you carry one around with you to coin shows or anything.
Hey -- isn't it still work hours in Tiburon? Does Don know you do this on the clock?
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
-Daniel
-Aristotle
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
-Horace
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
I'm man enough to try, but I don't know if I can come up with two that didn't:
Philly -- yep
Denver -- yep
San Francisco -- yep
New Orleans -- yep
Carson City -- yep
Charlotte -- yep
Dahlonega -- yep
West Point -- yep.
That covers the standard US Mints. How about other possible answers for this tricky question?
The US Mint at the Dalles, Oregon was built but never struck coins. Last I checked it was the back section of a furniture shop. So the Dalles Mint never struck any.
The San Francisco Provisional Mint (aka the US Assay Office) never struck $5s.
John Harper's basement in Philadelphia, in which the 1792 half dismes and Birch cents were struck, never struck $5s
I'm out of ideas -- help!
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
You got The Dalles, pretty good.
Duh -- I bet I know what it is.
Manila?
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
it has to be Manila. Can't imagine what else it would be.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
1.) What was J. Colvin Randall's profession? (I know, it is too easy)
2.) What was his business address? (A little tougher)
3.) What was hung over the doorway? (That should take a while)
4.) Where is his 1849 bronze/gilt double eagle? (Wouldn't we all like to know)
TDN -- Eliasberg was missing a lot of things. He defined completeness from a 1930s checklist published by C.E. Green of Chicago, and got everything in that checklist. Therefore, he called it complete. Of course, there were many things than weren't in the checklist that he lacked:
1866 No Motto dollar
1793 Strawberry Leaf
1799 cent (Breen discovered this in the mid 1950s, as the one E-berg had was a fake)
I believe there was a "modern" that he lacked as well but was added sometime later to keep the collection complete.
Which one do you have in mind?
Ed --
J. Colvin Randall was a druggist, not sure of his address, but I bet he had a mortar and pestle as a shop sign. His gilt 1849 double eagle was last seen with Stephen Nagy and hasn't been seen since.
Let the record show that I've not gotten off the couch to answer these, but I'm sure I could get better answers for all of them upstairs in the library (which is precisely why I have a library).
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
Yes, but he was even missing something on the checklist. He had a pattern in place of a regular design. Which coin was it? Hmmmm?
They call me "Pack the Ripper"
The force is not with me.
Edit: Here's an article about a Brasher from the PCGS webpage awhile back
Text
-Daniel
-Aristotle
Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
-Horace
Which pattern did E-berg substitute a regular issue for?
Or are you going to make me go look it up?
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
<< <i>
Ask me why anyone would ever pay 5 figures for a Jefferson nickel and I'll I can offer is a blank stare.
>>
Don't be so modest. There's probably much more you don't know about Jeffersons.