1910 $10 Indian Head Eagle PCGS MS64 (CAC)

Here’s a truly beautiful coin that would be the perfect addition to your collection. If you want an affordable gold type coin, well then this could be the one! The design of this coin series was the result of a creative collaboration between renowned sculptor-medalist Augustus Saint-Gaudens and President Theodore Roosevelt. Just imagine adding this stunner to your numismatic holdings. PCGS has graded 431 at MS64 with 161 finer. In CAC, there are 53 in MS64 with 34 finer.

President Theodore Roosevelt convinced Saint-Gaudens to add the Indian feather headdress to the $10 Eagle coin.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens took inspiration from the classical figure of Nike (Victory) when he drafted initial designs for a cent piece that was not developed further. This profile of Nike, bedecked with an olive wreath, became the obverse motif for this Eagle coin. President Theodore Roosevelt saw Saint-Gaudens' design for the eagle, and was not happy with it. He made his feelings known--and offered an artistic suggestion--in a letter to him dated November 14, 1905. Wrote Roosevelt, "...is it possible to make a Liberty with that Indian feather head-dress? ... Would the feather headdress be any more out of keeping with the rest of Liberty than the canonical Phyrgian cap which is never worn by any free people in the world?"