1911 $5 Indian Head Half Eagle PCGS MS63

Beautiful $5 Indian in the desirable PCGS Old Green Holder!

Here’s an attractive—and quite affordable—piece to add to your collection. David Akers writes, "The 1911 is one of the most common issues of the type, and examples in the MS-60 to 63 range are obtainable with some regularity.” PCGS has graded 2,549 as MS63 with 1,147 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $1,1950.00 in MS63.

 Bela Lyon Pratt, the artist-engraver who crafted this beautiful coin. 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."