1901-S $10 Liberty Head Eagle PCGS MS64

Here's a gorgeous piece that would be a perfect type coin in your collection. This is a common, but beautiful coin. And it is offered at a more affordable price than most near gem gold eagles. PCGS has graded 4,511 of them as M64 with 2,157 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $2,900.00 in MS64.

Ron Gillio writes, “I believe there are as many as 200,000 1901-S $10 Liberties. I encountered this date on my first trip to Europe to buy coins in 1970. I went to Zurich with fellow coin dealers Mark Teller and Larry Hanks. The first coins we were shown at the bullion department of Credit Suisse was two 500 coin bags of brilliant uncirculated 1901-S $10 Liberties. That's all they were in those days...bullion coins .… Unfortunately, the coins in Swiss banks are long gone and the coin departments are closed. But there were a lot of coins and we could have bought as many 1901-S $10 liberties as we could carry.”

The Credit Suisse headquarters in Zurich in 1895. It was in the bullion department of this building, in 1970, that dealer Ron Gillio was offered two 500-coin bags of 1901-S $10 Liberty eagles. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.