If You Are A Numismatics,

this could be the post for you, 

images Blanchard and Company Inc. coming up in a private sale is this beauty, the first gold coin ever minted in the United States, the coin is the Brasher Doubloon, and it was struck in 1787. It was created the same year the Constitution was written, and five years before there was such an entity as a federal mint. The coin was made by a metal smith named Ephraim Brasher, George Washington’s next-door neighbor in New York. Brasher privately minted a small number of coins, and he marked his initials on the breast of the eagle of the first of them, given the timing and proximity, it’s very likely Washington himself handled the coin at some point. The coin’s actual purpose is a bit of a mystery. No one knows if it was made as a prototype or souvenir, or if it was made to be circulated. Brasher made seven of the doubloons, but his initials are on the eagles’ wings on the other six coins,

people who really into old coins might tell you that the first coin in the series, the one currently for sale, is the greatest coin in the world because of when it was made and its history. It was even featured in Raymond Chandler’s novel “The High Window” in 1942, and the movie that was based of the book, so how much is this beauty going to fetch? well if you have to ask you can not afford it! OK I give in, the asking price is $15 million! I did say if you have to ask you can not afford it!