1907 $5 Liberty Head Half Eagle NGC MS64 (CAC)

Here’s an attractive--and quite affordable--piece to add to your collection. The 1907 $5 is the penultimate issue of the long-running and popular Liberty head half eagle series. NGC has graded 1,067 as MS64 with 260 finer. Collectors Universe gives this issue a price of $1,300.00 in MS64. In CAC, there are 262 in MS64 with 52 finer. CAC prices the 1907 $5 at $1,180.00 in MS64.

Christian Gobrecht, who designed the Liberty head for the half eagle and other gold coins. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

Discussing the design found upon the Liberty Head half eagle, numismatic scholar and art critic Cornelius Vermeule writes, "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. On the $5 gold piece, or half eagle ... this sober yet young and sympathetic head of Liberty was to vary only in details [from the $10 Liberty head eagle] of tresses on the neck or strands of pearls in the bun on the back of the head."