1894 $10 Liberty Head Eagle NGC MS61

With a mintage of over 2.4 million pieces, this mint state specimen is a very affordable option for the collector who wants to add an attractive gold Eagle to his or her numismatic holdings. NGC has graded 14,005 specimens as MS61, with 25,238 finer. Collectors Universe gives this issue a price of $1,500.00 in MS61.

Photo of Liberty Head $10 Eagle graded PCGS MS65. Photo: PCGS Coinfacts website.

Commenting upon the inspiration for Gobrecht's Liberty numismatic scholar and art critic Cornelius 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, Pythagoras 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."