1926 $2.50 Indian Head Quarter Eagle NGC MS64

A beautiful coin that is more affordable. That’s what you get when you buy this specimen from AU Capital Management. NGC has graded 3,676 as MS64 with 931 finer. Collector’s Universe gives this issue a price of $975.00 in MS64.

Gold specialist David Akers writes, “Most examples of this date are very frosty and lustrous with a sharp strike. Color varies, with some specimens having a pale rose gold color and others having a rich greenish gold color. The "eye appeal" of … specimens of this issue is among the best, if not the absolute best, in the series.”

Bela Lyon Pratt took inspiration from the indigenous people of our land to craft his beautiful Indian head design. Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull (in 1885) wearing his eagle feather headdress. 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."