1907 $10 Indian Head Eagle, No Motto PCGS MS63

Here's a more affordable example of Saint-Gauden's masterwork that would be the perfect type coin for your collection. It has much going for it: stunning design, beautiful golden coloration, and a choice grade in a PCGS holder! PCGS has awarded the grade of MS63 to 2,070 specimens with 1,604 finer.

President Theodore Roosevelt  collaborated with Augustus Saint-Gaudens during his presidency on the creation of the $10 gold eagle (as well as the $20 double eagle coin).

After his death, Theodore Roosevelt honored Augustus Saint-Gaudens as an artist and friend by saying in a 1908 memorial speech that his double eagle and eagle were “more beautiful than any coins since the days of the Greeks, and they achieve their striking beauty because Saint-Gaudens not only possessed a perfect mastery in the physical address of his craft, but also a daring and original imagination.”

In a thank you letter to Roosevelt, Saint-Gaudens’ widow, Augusta, wrote, “Such a tribute from you would, I know, have meant much to him especially the recognition of his labor on the coins into which he put his whole heart. Your presence with Mrs. Roosevelt gave to the memorial a character and meaning which without you it could not have happened and I hardly know how to thank you both for this expression of your friendliness now that he is gone.”