Brasher Doubloon
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The Brasher Doubloon is a rare American doubloon of eight escudos worth sixteen dollars, privately minted in and after 1787.
The High Window
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The High Window is a 1942 novel written by Raymond Chandler. It is his third novel featuring the Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe.
Brasher Doubloon
…9.36 million, a world record for a gold coin sold in a public auction. The coin was the subject of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe 1942 mystery novel The High Window, which was made into a film, Time to Kill, in 1942, and The Brasher Doubloon, in 1947. It is also mentioned in Lawrence Block's 1980 Bernie Rhodenbarr…
Cover of the first edition