1893 $10 Liberty Head Eagle NGC MS63+ (CAC)

1893 $10 Liberty Head Eagle NGC MS63+ (CAC)--$1,550.00 "Great affordable type coin" "Registry"

      It is with pleasure that we present for your consideration a truly affordable gold coin in the strong grade of MS63+: an 1893 $10 gold piece. This is a relatively common coin with its mintage of over 1.8 million pieces. But that makes it an affordable option for a beginning collector, or one who wants to get a great deal on a registry coin! Ron Guth writes, "This date [1893] was one of the dates exported in large quantities to European central banks by the United States governments decades ago. Dealers began re-importing them back into America beginning in the late 1970s and 1980s, and the supply has been seemingly inexhaustible."

      Discussing the design found upon the Liberty Head eagle, numismatic scholar and art critic 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. Commenting upon the inspiration for Gobrecht's Liberty, Vermeule writes, "The motivation for this Roman head of Liberty stems from vast, varied neoclassicism of the Napoleonic era. Typical of the source is a small painting ... by Jacques-Louis David's contemporary Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Phythagoras or The Earth is Round, painted about 1800. ... [On the painting it] is the diademed or coroneted, white-robed, seated female that should attract our attention, for she is related to the heads of Liberty on our 19th century gold ... coinage."