1899 $10 Liberty Head Eagle NGC AU58

Here’s a great example to include in your coin collection. This attractive coin from the last year of the 19th century is housed in a classic old NGC slab. Please examine the photos of this coin at your leisure. NGC has graded 320 as AU58 with 22,647 finer. Collector’s Universe prices this issue at $1,575.00 in AU58.

The Second Philadelphia Mint, where this piece was struck in 1899. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

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.