1897 $10 Liberty Head Eagle NGC AU58

Here’s a great coin to include in your numismatic holdings. Stored in a classic old NGC holder, this is an attractive specimen from one of the last years of the 19^th century. Please take a look at the photos of this coin at your convenience. NGC has graded 218 as AU58 with 10,926 finer. Collector’s Universe prices this issue at $1,575.00 in AU58.

Christian Gobrecht, who crafted the design of the Liberty Head on the gold $10 eagle coin. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Commenting upon the inspiration for Gobrecht's Liberty, art historian and numismatist 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, 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."