1901 $10 Liberty Head Eagle PCGS MS64

Here's a great type coin at a great price, one that won't break the bank. With its rich golden-yellow coloration and near-Gem grade, adding this piece to your collection should be an easy decision. PCGS has graded 5,754 as MS64, with 1,688 finer.

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin's Pythagoras or The Earth is Round, painted about 1800.

Discussing the design found upon the Liberty Head eagle, 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."