"The World's Most Valuable Gold Coin" shattered records at a public auction of famous U.S. coins hosted by Heritage Auctions on January 21, 2021, in Dallas, Texas, fetching a record $9,360,000. There are just seven known copies of this gold coin from 1787, and it is considered the finest.
From the very beginning of the auction, President Greg Rohan of Heritage Auctions participated in phone bidding with the winning bidder.
On Thursday, the doubloon—the finest specimen of its type—was auctioned off for the third time since 1848. This coin, officially called the 1787 New York-Style Brasher Doubloon, W-5840, NGC MS65★
s famous as "The World's Most Famous Coin" in the numismatic community and beyond.
The Brasher Doubloon (20th Century Fox, 1946) and Raymond Chandler's The High Window are two examples of the detective novels and films that popularized the Brasher Doubloon.
For the common American, the Brasher Doubloon personifies all that is noble and precious about rare and valuable coins; no other coin comes close to matching its illustrious place in popular culture.
The visual appeal is outstanding, the technical quality is top-notch, and this issue is extremely important from a historical perspective.
The prior high for a gold coin at auction was $7.59 million in 2002 in New York for a 1933 $20 Double Eagle, as reported in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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