1907 $10 Liberty Head Eagle NGC MS61

Here’s an attractive—and very affordable—piece to add to your collection. NGC has graded 6,055 as MS61 with 23,025 finer. Collectors Universe gives this issue a price of $1,600.00 in MS61.

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, 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."

Self-portrait by James B. Longacre (1845), who crafted the Liberty head design on this offering from AUCM. Image: Wikimedia Commons.