1907 $10 Liberty Head Eagle PCGS MS65 (OGH & PQ+)

Here’s a stunning piece that will make you sit up and take notice! Please take a look at the photos provided by AUCM of this truly beautiful PQ example. The 1907 was the last year of the popular Liberty head eagle series. PCGS has graded 85 as MS65 with only 5 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $5,000.00 in MS65.

Christian Gobrecht, who designed and engraved the Liberty head design upon the gold eagle and other coins. Image: 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.

Commenting upon the inspiration for Gobrecht's Liberty, 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."