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1876-S $10 Liberty Head Eagle, PCGS XF45 (CAC), Ex. D.L. Hansen

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This specimen is from the collection of D.L. Hansen. This coin is rare in any and all grades. Heritage Auctions writes that there are "just 70 to 85 pieces known..." This is the kind of specimen found in the finest numismatic collections, ones in which the collector demands nothing less than the crème de la crème of numismatic art.

Discussing the design found upon the Liberty Head eagle, numismatic scholar and art critic Cornelius Vermeule writes, "Gobrecht executed new designs (1838) for the $10 denomination in gold, a coin known as an eagle. The bust of Liberty with an inscribed coronet in her hair that graced the obverse was to remain on the gold coinage until 1908." The reverse differed little from the design in use since 1807 on the $5 gold piece save that the wings of the eagle spread from one edge of the coin to the other. Commenting upon the inspiration for Gobrecht's Liberty, Vermeule writes, "The motivation for this Roman head of Liberty stems from vast, varied neoclassicism of the Napoleonic era. Typical of the source is a small painting ... by Jacques-Louis David's contemporary Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Phythagoras or The Earth is Round, painted about 1800. ... [On the painting it] is the diademed or coroneted, white-robed, seated female that should attract our attention, for she is related to the heads of Liberty on our 19th century gold ... coinage."

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PCGS # 8676
Grading Service NONE
Year of Issue NONE
Grade NONE
Denom Type N/A
Numeric Denomination $10
Mint Location NONE
Designation NONE
Circ/UnCirc Not Specified
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Holder Variety D.L. Hansen Collection
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