1889-S $10 Liberty Head Eagle PCGS MS63

Attractive coin at a better price!

Here’s a good-looking Choice piece to add to your collection at a price that won’t break the bank. PCGS has graded 429 as MS63 with 146 finer. Collector’s Universe prices this issue at $2,650.00 in MS63.

The Old San Francico Mint, where this great collectible was struck in 1889. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Discussing the design found upon the Liberty Head eagle, numismatist and art historian Cornelius Vermeule writes, "Gobrecht executed new designs (1838) for the $10 denomination in gold, a coin known as an eagle. The bust of Liberty with an inscribed coronet in her hair that graced the obverse was to remain on the gold coinage until 1908." The reverse differed little from the design in use since 1807 on the $5 gold piece, save that the wings of the eagle spread from one edge of the coin to the other.