1909 $5 Indian Head Half Eagle NGC MS62 (CAC)

Presented at an affordable price, this specimen would be the perfect addition to a type set of U.S. gold coinage. A suggestion for a type set would be of similarly priced $5 Indian (1908-1929) and $10 Indian gold pieces (1907-1933) from the Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Denver mints. Wouldn't that be a great project to work on? If you would like professional guidance in putting together such a set, please reach out to AUCM.

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] was one 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."