1908 $2.50 Indian Head Quarter Eagle PCGS MS63

Here's an attractive choice specimen of the first year of this series, one that won’t break the bank. Please look at the images provided by AUCM. This piece would be the perfect gold type coin for your collection. PCGS has graded 1,838 in MS63, with 2,505 finer. Collectors Universe gives this issue a price of $1,950.00 in MS63.

Bela Lyon Pratt, the artist-engraver who crafted this beautiful coin. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Noted numismatic scholar and art critic Cornelius Vermeule writes, "Bela Lyon Pratt of Boston presented a novel coin.... an Indian brave in war bonnet adorns the obverse, and [a] Ptolemaic eagle with wings closed walks along on the reverse...The innovations [on this coin were] of technique as much as design. Instead of being modeled in relief within a protecting rim, the Indian, the eagle, and the lettering were sunken in incuse or engraved in the uniformly flat plane of the coin .... the [coin shows] more imagination and daring of design than almost any other issue in American history."