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1787 BRASHER "DOUBLOON"
The Dupont Specimen

Weight - 408.3 grains

Known history:

Sold by B. Max Mehl in 1933 - Lammot duPont - Willis H. duPont.  This coin was stolen from the duPonts at gunpoint in October 1967 and was retrieved in July 1968. 

Source: Breen, Walter, "Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of United States and Colonial Coins", copyright 1988 by F.C.I. Press, New York, NY, pp. 92-93

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