1908 $2.50 Indian Head Quarter Eagle NGC MS64 (CAC)

Here’s a beauty to add to your collection, one that will give you years of pleasure. Plus, it is the first-year issue of this popular series! NGC has graded 1,450 as MS64 with 564 finer. Collector’s Universe prices this issue at $3,000.00 in MS64. In CAC, there are 307 in MS64 with 154 finer. CAC gives this issue a price of $2,900.00 in MS64.

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

Noted numismatist and art historian 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."