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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1256889, member: 66&quot;]Did you note the question mark in the first sentence from that ad?</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;A new limited-issue of the legendary Brasher Gold Doubloon has just been released, officially licensed by the Smithsonian Institution?. &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This sounds to me like it ISN&#039;T licensed but they are trying to get you to think that it may be.&nbsp; And the title says half doubloon, the first sentence calls it a doubloon.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it calls it a Brasher Doubloon, but then goes on to talk a lot about the half doubloon which is actually a doubloon that had a damaged edge turned down on a lathe.&nbsp; So is this copy a doubloon or a half doubloon?</p><p><br /></p><p>From blowing up the images and the way the outer legend is missing I&#039;d say it is a half doubloon.&nbsp; And from the images I don&#039;t see the word copy on these.&nbsp; It does have the date 2011 after the word Brasher but I don&#039;t think that would be good enough.&nbsp; OK I see it now on the NGC label that it is a half doubloon.&nbsp; Frankly this doesn&#039;t impress me, nor does it impress me that NGC has slabbed what I consider an unmarked copy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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