Very collectible example of Saint-Gaudens' stunning masterwork, the Indian Head Eagle. NGC has graded 181 of this issue as MS60, with 6,663 finer.

Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade was led by American Indian chiefs. He employed the motif of the Indian feather headdress on Saint-Gaudens' $10 Eagle coin. Roosevelt spoke eloquently in a memorial speech honoring Saint-Gaudens after his passing.

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.”