1911-D $2.50 Indian Head Quarter Eagle NGC AU58 - Key Date of Series!

David Hall writes, "This is the key date to the $2.5 Indian series and is one of the more famous key dates of the 20th century .... The 1911-D has an original mintage of only 55,680 coins. The next lowest mintage is the 1914 with 240,000 ..." Gold enthusiasts (as well as key date enthusiasts) should carefully study this listing. This is the 'Weak D' variety. NGC has graded 43 of that variety in AU58, with just 7 finer.

Indian Chief Hollow Horn Bear, whom Bela Pratt used to model the designs of his Indian Head coins.

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."