NGC-Certified Brasher Doubloon Realizes a Record $9.36 Million at Partrick Sale
$9.36 million USD on Thursday to become the most expensive NGC-certified coin ever sold at auction, more than doubling the previous record. A second NGC-certified Brasher Doubloon, of a different type and graded NGC MS 61, sold moments later for $2.1 million. The extraordinary results came in an elite sale by Heritage Auctions that featured a number of impressive early American rarities — all certified by NGC — from the unparalleled Donald G. Partrick Collection. The coin collecting community cherishes Brasher Doubloons because they were the first gold coins struck in the newly independent United States. Only nine are known and they seldom come to market: Seven are called “