Word: doubloons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seeley G. Mudd Library. But inflation was exceeding expectations, and Yale needed to find another $1.5 million as the projected construction cost grew to $6.7 million. Meanwhile, resting virtually unseen in a library vault was the Yale coin collection's most famous gold piece, a 26-gram doubloon struck in 1787 by New York Goldsmith Ephraim Brasher...
Last week Yale offered the doubloon for sale, and within four days it was snapped up for $650,000. The name of the buyer was withheld because possessors of such costly coins rarely risk publicity and a possible ripoff...