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Rare gold coin sells for £4.8m

Published by Kirke Sööt in category Financial news on 15.12.2011
Gold price (XAU-EUR)
2244,87 EUR/oz
  
+ 7,99 EUR
Silver price (XAG-EUR)
26,93 EUR/oz
  
+ 0,26 EUR



A rare 1787 gold Brasher doubloon has been sold for 7.4 million dollars (£4.8 million), one of the highest prices ever paid for a gold coin.


Blanchard and Co, the New Orleans-based coin and precious metals company that brokered the deal, said the doubloon was purchased by a Wall Street investment firm. Identities of the buyer and seller were not disclosed.


Minted by Ephraim Brasher, a goldsmith and neighbour of George Washington, the coin contains 26.66g of gold – slightly less than an ounce. Worth about 15 dollars (£10) when it was minted, the gold value today would be more than 1,500 dollars (£965).


The Brasher doubloon is considered the first American-made gold coin denominated in dollars; the US Mint in Philadelphia did not begin striking coins until the 1790s.


http://www.herald.ie/breaking-news/world-news/rare-gold-coin-sells-for-48m-2960948.html

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