The unique Brasher Doubloon, the first gold coin made for the young United States, was sold December 2011 by nationally known rare coin dealer, Steven L. Contursi of Laguna Beach, California, to Certified Acceptance Corporation (CAC) of Far Hills, New Jersey.
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The coin was the subject of nefarious goings on in Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mystery The High Window.
Ten Eyck was also an avid coin collector, having built a collection of great rarities including the famed Brasher Doubloon over the course of fifty years of collecting.