1911 $2.50 Indian Head Quarter Eagle PCGS MS63

Here’s an attractive coin that would be an exciting addition to your collection. PCGS has graded 1,619 as MS63 with 1,215 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $1,500.00 in MS63.

Photo of Bela Lyon Pratt, who designed and engraved this unique coin design. 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."